Beschrijving
Originally SPSS was an acronym that stood for 'Statistical Package for the Social Sciences'. In the meantime, the software package has evolved into SPSS Statistics and one of the most used statistical packages in the world. The power of SPSS Statistics lies in its ease of use, its flexibility as well as its scalability. The syntax that allows you to apply a whole range of operations and statistical techniques to your data is covered by a relatively accessible graphical user interface that allows you to 'do statistics' without specialized programming knowledge or expertise in the algorithms of specific statistical methods. Of course, correct interpretation in context is essential.
This course gives you a solid foundation to translate your own research questions into a statistical target that can draw on a well-organized data file, and to further develop your SPSS skills based on your analysis needs. The introduction is designed to be hands-on-oriented. The participants are given a number of problems after which possible solutions are discussed and demonstrated.
Target audience
This introductory course is aimed at anyone starting to collect and/or store data for statistical analysis and interpretation.
Content
Table of content:
Chapter 1: Getting started
- Installing (trial version) and opening SPSS
- SPSS Data, Output and Syntax windows
- SPSS file menus
- Getting help in SPSS
Chapter 2: Importing Data
- Manually inputting data in SPSS
- Import and open .xlsx, .csv, .txt, .sav, .dta and other file formats
- Data and Variable views
Chapter 3: Data Manipulation
- Select Cases
- Sorting of Cases
- Visual Binning
- Data Merge
- Splitting data
Chapter 4: Manipulating Variables
- Creating New Variables
- Recoding into Different Variables
- Recoding into Same Variables
- Summarisation of Data
- Measurement Scales
Chapter 5: Exploring data
- Frequency Tables
- Descriptive Statistics
- Generating a Histogram
- Generating Statistics
- Building Graphs Easily
- Cross Tables
Chapter 6: Statistical Analysis
- Hypothesis Testing
- One sample, two-sample and ANOVA
- Post-Hoc tests
- Correlation Analysis
- Simple Linear Regression
- Multiple Linear Regression
Exam / Certificate
There is no exam associated with this module. If you attend all classes, you will receive a certificate of participation by email at the end of the course.
Type of course
This is an on campus course. We offer blended learning options if, exceptionally, you can't attend a session on campus.
Schedule
Thursday 2nd October2025,
Thursday 9th October 2025,
Thursday 16th October 2025,
From 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm
Venue
Faculty of Science, Campus Sterre, Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Ghent
Fees
The participation fee is 780 EUR for participants from the private sector. Reduced prices apply to students and staff from non-profit, social profit, and government organizations
- Industry, private sector, profession*: € 780
- Non profit, government, higher education staff, (Doctoral) students, unemployed: € 350
*If two or more employees from the same company enrol simultaneously for this course a reduction of 20% on the course fee is taken into account starting from the second enrolment.
Registration
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Organisation
Science Academy
Faculty of Science
science-academy@ugent.be
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