Survey data analysis I: Introducing descriptive and inferential statistics Event
- Time:
- 09:30 - 15:00
- Date:
- 17 - 19 September 2014
- Venue:
- Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Building 39 University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ Participants will need to make their own accommodation arrangements. Maps and travel information are available from the University of Southampton Travel Page. This also includes a map of the Highfield Campus. Building 39 is at the end of Salisbury Road edging onto Southampton Common.
For more information regarding this event, please telephone CASS Courses in Applied Social Surveys programme enquiries on +44 (0)23 8059 5376 or email cass@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This course introduces participants to basic concepts of applied statistical data analysis. Topics will include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions and basic contingency table analysis. Practical computer workshops will be used to analyse sample survey data with the computer package SPSS.
Course Objectives:
- To develop an understanding of the basic principles of statistical analysis.
- To enable participants to employ appropriate methods of presenting data in research reports and papers.
Course Content:
- Overview
- Introduction and review of descriptive statistics
- Confidence intervals for means and proportions
- Setting up and testing hypotheses
- Tests of statistical significance
- Two sample tests for means and proportions
- One-way analysis of variance
- Association in tables (Chi-square test)
The course will include workshop sessions so that participants can work through practical group exercises as well as computer exercises using SPSS. Course participants will be introduced to analysing sample survey data. No knowledge of SPSS is assumed.
Target Audience:
The course is aimed at researchers who need to perform basic analysis on data from sample surveys, especially those in the social, economic, educational and medical sciences. Participants may be researchers working in academia, local or central government, survey agencies, market research, the voluntary or the private sector.
Duration:
On the first day, the course will start with registration and coffee at 9.30 with formal teaching starting at 10.00 am; it will finish at about 5.30pm. On the last day, teaching starts at 9am and formal teaching finishes at about 3pm. Afterwards there will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions about the course and to discuss with the instructor how to analyse their own data (until about 4pm). (You can bring your own data to the course if you wish).
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Dr Gabriele B. Durrant,Reader at the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)