RESEARCH METHODOLOGY I- PRACTICAL

Paper Code: 
DATG 702
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

             Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO 156: Demonstrate and analyze the data entry and recording of SPSS.

CO 157: Examine and demonstrate various data managing function of SPSS

CO 158: Demonstrate and evaluate the graphs and charts through SPSS

CO 159: Determine the measures of central tendency.

CO 160:  Determine research problem for chi-square and interpret through chi-square analysis      

Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Workshops and question preparation

Quiz, test, assignments and viva-voce

 

6.00
Unit I: 

Introduction to SPSS
• Creating a data file, defining variables, Data Entry, inserting variable, measurement scales, inserting cases, identifying duplicate cases, sorting cases, merging & splitting files, select case.

6.00
Unit II: 

Managing Data
• Missing data, compute variable, recode variable, rank cases, Weighted Cases.
• Frequencies, Descriptive, Cross Tabs, Exploratory, Custom Tables.

6.00
Unit III: 

Visual Statistics using SPSS
• Chart Builder, Histograms, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Cluster Bar, Stacked Bar, Error bar, Line charts, Pie charts, Editing graphs and Axes

6.00
Unit IV: 

Descriptive Statistics using SPSS
• Measures of central tendency, variability, deviation from normality, confidence level, Confidence Intervals, Power of the test, Normal Curve, Normality Test, Reliability Analysis.

6.00
Unit V: 

Bi variate Correlation using SPSS
• Bi variate Correlation, Partial Correlations and the correlation matrix

Essential Readings: 

• Andy Field, Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics,Sage Publications
• Kiran Pandya, Smruti Bulsari, Sanjay Sinha, SPSS in Simple Steps, Dreamtech Press
• A. Rajathi & P. Chandran (2012), SPSS for You, MJP publishers.
• Lawrence M Mayers, Glenn C Gamst, A J Guarind, Performing Data Analysis Using SPSS, Wiley

References: 

• S. Ajai Gaur (2009), Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers.
• Seyed Reza Hashemian Rahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani, Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform.
• Keith Mc Cormick, Jesus Salcedo, Jon Peck, Andrew Wheeler, SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wiley
• James B Cunningham (2011), Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher, 3rd Edition.

e-RESOURCES:
https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?vid=0&sid=0c7f189a-083f-4...
http://ww1.shodhganga.com/
https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
https://www.scopus.com/home.uri
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
https://www.doaj.org/

REFERENCE JOURNALS:
• Business Perspectives and Research
• FIIB Business Review
• Harvard Business Review
• IUP Journal of Accounting Research
• Jindal Journal of Business Research
• Nirma University Journal of Business & Management Studies
• Oorja
• The Chartered Accountant
• The ICFAI reader
• The Indian Journal of Commerce
• Vikalpa: Journal for Decision Makers

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