SPSS Workshop
For Medical Research
By
Ahmad R. Alsaber
About the Training
SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) is a tool for the statistical analysis of data. It allows to perform a wide variety of statistical procedures.
Main objective of the course is to provide participants with a basic knowledge of the program in order to be able to use it in a socio-economic context and in the exploration of corporate data. Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Journals and articles evaluation.
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Understand the main features of SPSS
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Use the SPSS GUI effectively
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Perform descriptive analyses with SPSS
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Perform common parametric and non-parametric tests
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Perform simple regressions and multivariate analyses (factor and cluster)
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Know where to find help
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Reporting results
Prerequisites:
A good knowledge of basic descriptive and inferential statistics. It is advisable to have a have a good familiarity with PC operations and a working knowledge of spreadsheet application software (Excel).