The School of Commerce, Jain (Deemed-to-be University) conducted a 3-day workshop on Data Analysis through SPSS from 9 to 11 May 2019. Students from various discipline and states actively took part to explore and enhance their knowledge.
The MDP was conducted by Dr. Vinod Kumar Murti, who is the Country Head – India of IOA (Institute of Analytics), headquartered at London, UK. He is an industry professional as well as an academician who has vast experience of 19 years in Engineering Industry and 17 years in academics. He is certified trainer for IBM-CEBT.
The audience consisted of PG students, academicians, industry practitioners, librarians – academic and corporate and PhD scholars from different disciplines such as Commerce and Management, Library Sciences, Cultural Studies, Analytics, Mass Media and Communication, etc. They hailed from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Topics Covered on Day 1 and 2 Were:
Basics of Research Methodology
Creation of SPSS Data Files
Cleaning of Data through identification of mild and hard Outliers
Cross Tabulation with two and three variables
Data Screening through Descriptive Analysis
Preparation of Charts and Graphs like, Histogram
Box-Plots, Stem and Leaf Diagram, Bar and Pie Charts
Hypothesis testing including all t-tests, One-way ANOVA and Chi-square test
Simple Linear Regression (SLR) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR)
On Day 3: Factors analysis
Cluster analysis
Basics of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
Logistic Regression
Artificial Neural Network (ANN)