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PSY-RSS14 Advanced Topics in SPSS

0.5 semester credits
The goal of this Research Skills seminar is to guide students in more advanced use of SPSS. It is assumed that students will have some familiarity with the software (i.e. creating data files, running basic procedures) which they will have obtained in prerequisite courses (PSY-716A ). The seminar will emphasize data manipulation and management and introduces students to working with syntax. Particular attention will be given to the creation and modification of variables, archival data, merging data sets, and creating sub-sets of data files.
Pre-requisites: PSY-716A  or PSY-717  
Delivery Method: In person
Grading Default: Credit/No Credit Only
Learning Outcome(s):  

  1. Be able to manipulate data in the IBM-SPSS environment (i.e. recode/compute).
  2. Be familiar with multiple data transformations and the criteria for their use.
  3. Be able to merge, split and reformat files.
  4. Know how to test the assumptions of parametric statistical procedures.
  5. Be able to work with SPSS syntax to run procedures and perform data manipulations.



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