Week - 1 |
Introduction to Statistical Software: Basic features, installation and operation of Minitab and SPSS programs. |
Week - 2 |
File and Edit menus: Data entry, Variable definitions, Import-Export data transfers. |
Week - 3 |
Data Menu: Splitting, merging and saving data files. |
Week - 4 |
Data Menu: Data selection and weighting based on criteria |
Week - 5 |
Data Processing: Variable (Column) and Unit (Row) operations, Grouping and re-coding of data. |
Week - 6 |
Data Processing: Variable and Unit-based calculations, Missing observation definitions and elimination methods. |
Week - 7 |
Minitab: Generation of random data suitable for distributions, Probability distributions and probability calculations based on distributions. |
Week - 8 |
SPSS: Entry of survey data, definition of variable properties and coding of data. |
Week - 9 |
Creation of frequency series and crosstabs. |
Week - 10 |
Graph menu and graph drawings. |
Week - 11 |
Calculation of descriptive statistics. |
Week - 12 |
Parametric Tests: z and Student-t tests, Checking the normality assumption. |
Week - 13 |
Parametric Tests: One-way analysis of variance. |
Week - 14 |
Parametric Tests: Regression analysis. |