Tuesday 20th June 2023

Target Audience

This one day on-line course is aimed at complete beginners to acquire the skill necessary to use SPSS files.

The course tutor, Elizabeth Wiredu, is a Medical Statistician and she also supports all methodological approaches to qualitative research. Elizabeth has 29 years of experience, providing teaching and learning support for graduate schools, postgraduate students, medical doctors and other health researchers. She has served as an in-house medical statistician at University Hospitals of Aintree and trained doctors in Mersey Deanery on medical statistics. Elizabeth was a third-party trainer for IBM SPSS UK, delivering their public courses on Statistical Methods for Healthcare professionals.  (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/elizabethwiredu)

A booking form is at https://assess-spss.co.uk/workshop-form/

Pre-requisites 

This workshop is suitable for users who have no prior experience using SPSS.

Aim

This one-day course is aimed at complete beginners to IBM SPSS Statistics. It introduces basic concepts and structures and uses these to read in and prepare data ready for analysis and perform data manipulations using core commands to generate descriptive statistics and graphical summaries. You will learn to use a number of data manipulation techniques including: recode, count occurrence, select cases given a criteria, split files, compute, and multiple response data summary statistics.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Recode continuous variables
• Open and save Data Files
• Enter and define data
• Produce simple descriptive statistics and one and two-way tables
• Use commands for calculations and selection
• Split cases to generate separate output
• Create graphs
• Summarise multiple response variables