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Basic analysis with SPSS and Stata (In person only)
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Cleaning and Manipulating Data in Stata (1hr)
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Cleaning and manipulating data
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Students should be able to:
o Rename variables
o Create categorical variables from numeric data
o Create categorical variables from string variables
o Recode categories of a categorical variable
o Reverse score numeric variables
o Create composite scores across a number of items (mean and total scores)
o Merge datasets
o Reshape datasets
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Univariate Statistics in SPSS (1hr)
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Background to inferential statistics
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Displaying and describing data (30mins)
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Students should be able to:
· Produce appropriate descriptive statistics for categorical and numeric variables
· Create appropriate graphical summaries for categorical and numeric variables
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One-sample t-test (15mins)
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· Conduct appropriate assumption testing for a one-sample t-test
· Conduct and interpret a one-sample t-test
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Chi-square goodness of fit (15mins)
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· Understand the assumptions of a chi-square goodness of fit test
· Conduct and interpret a chi-square goodness of fit test
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Univariate Statistics in Stata (1hr)
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Learning Outcomes
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Displaying and describing data (30mins)
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Students should be able to:
· Produce appropriate descriptive statistics for categorical and numeric variables
· Create appropriate graphical summaries for categorical and numeric variables
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One-sample t-test (15mins)
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· Conduct appropriate assumption testing for a one-sample t-test
· Conduct and interpret a one-sample t-test
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Chi-square goodness of fit (15mins)
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· Understand the assumptions of a chi-square goodness of fit test
· Conduct and interpret a chi-square goodness of fit test
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Pre-requisites:
Familiarity with the fundamental aspects of quantitative research methods and with SPSS, including:
· how to manually enter and import data
· how to recode and compute variables
If you are new to SPSS, please register for Introduction to SPSS & Stata
Software:
You can access SPSS through
Please register for the next level workshop, Inferential stats with SPSS and Stata next Thursday. |
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| Date: |
Thursday 06 March 2025 |
| Time: |
11:00 AM to 02:00 PM |
| Audiences |
Graduate Research Students
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| Venue(s): |
6 Eastern Rd, Room 104 |
| Facilitator(s): |
Grace Yun |
| Enquiries: |
gr.development@mq.edu.au |
Registration for this workshop is not open.
