Data analysis and analytics. Uncover insights and transform your organisation.

Evolve your understanding of statistics and statistical analyses with this practical course focused on using the SPSS package. You will learn the practical steps involved in carrying out research involving statistical analysis. The course covers statistical terminology and concepts, selection and conduct of appropriate statistical tests and their interpretation. Complex mathematical and technical terms are kept to a minimum. Attention will be given to both statistical significance (p-values), as well as practical significance (effect size). This course goes beyond descriptive statistics but doesn’t look at more advanced statistical methods.

This course is for you if you are in a profession that requires rigorous statistical analysis in order to make sound decisions and judgements This workshop is suitable for a range of disciplines, including business and management, education, medicine, health or government or non-government services.

The course focus is on using SPSS but the concepts are transferable to any statistical package.

Aims

This course aims to provide you with many of the essential skills required in analysing, interpreting and reporting data using SPSS.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• identify different types of data (nominal, ordinal and continuous)
• define a ‘researchable question’ relevant to your area of research
• report your data using the ap