The Office Of Research Innovation & Commercialization now proudly announces the workshop for professionals and Researchers:

Details for the said workshop are as follows:-

Workshop Objectives: Proficiency with statistical software packages is indispensable today for quantitative research in social sciences. SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is one of the most widely available and powerful statistical software packages. It covers a broad range of statistical procedures that allow researcher to summarize data (e.g., compute means and standard deviations), determine whether there are significant differences between groups (e.g., t-tests, analysis of variance), examine relationships among variables (e.g., correlation, multiple regression), and graphical presentation of data (e.g., bar charts, line graphs). So the objective of this workshop is to provide a unique opportunity to learn how to use SPSS for Quantitative data analysis.

Contents: Introduction to SPSS, Defining Variables & Data Coding, Entering Data into SPSS, Data Transformations, Differential Hypothesis, Associational Hypothesis, Reliability Test, Descriptive Statistics, Measurement of Central Tendency (Mean, Mode, Median, Standard Deviation, Frequency Tables), Charts and Graphs (Histogram, Pie Chart, Boxplots, Bar Charts), Cross tabulation, Chi-Square for Cross Tabs, Procedures for Comparing Groups (Independent Samples T-Test, Dependent ‘Paired' Samples T-Test, One-way ANOVA, Two-way ‘Factorial' ANOVA), Procedures for Exploring Relationships (Bivariate Correlation, Simple Regression, Multiple Regression), Non Parametric Tests (Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal Wallis Test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Friedman test).

Who Should Attend : This program is for students, scholars of MSc, MBA, MS/MPhil & Ph.Ds; Deans, Faculty Members from different departments e.g., Management Sciences, Anthropology, Archaeology, Psychology, Sociology, Commerce, Economics, Linguistics, Communications Studies, International Relations, Criminology and other researchers of Social Sciences who are pursuing their independent study, Thesis/Dissertation and looking for Quantitative Data Analysis Techniques. So the aim of this workshop is to provide a unique opportunity to learn how to use SPSS for Quantitative Data Analysis.

Duration of the Course: One day workshop on 15 th March 2015 (Sunday)

Timings of the Course: 10:00 A.M. to 05:00 P.M.

Training Fee: Rs.2500/- Inc. Lunch, Certificate, Course Material and Stationary. (20% Discount is available for a group of 3 Members, Research Focal Person and Students of Punjab University)

Venue: Computer Lab, Centre for Undergraduate Studies, University of the Punjab Lahore.

Certificates will be given to the participants

Registration forms of the workshop can be downloaded from link given below or can be obtained from ORIC, 1st floor, Institute of Chemical Engineering Department.