Juba Training on Data Analysis using SPSS and Advanced Excel 23-27 April 2018

MDS · March 26, 2018, 10:21am

Face to Face Training on SPSS and Advance Excel in Juba April 23-27 2018

Mode: Online (pdf notes, videos, mp3 audios, online chat, community work and assignments)

Start Dates: Monday 23rd April 2018.

End Dates: Saturday 28th April 2019.

Deadline to Apply: Sunday 22nd April 2018

Duration: 6 Days months (8 am - 4 pm).

Course Fee: USD 300 (this fee covers 10am tea, lunch, 4pm tea, certificate ONLY)

Certificate and Transcript Offered: YES

Assessment: Continuous assessment tests, final exam on Saturday

Location: A suitable hotel in Juba town (to be communicated)

About Humanitarian Elites
Humanitarian Elites is an organization well established in Kenya composed of professionals with diverse experience, practices, skills and knowledge spread across Africa mandated to improve access to quality education, knowledge and attitudes to foster development in middle and low level income countries.

Started in February 2005 in Kenya, the organization has trained thousands of professionals in Malindi, Lamu, Nairobi and Isibania in Kenya; Yambio, Maridi, Rumbek, Wau and Juba in South Sudan; Kampala, Jinja and Gulu in Uganda and Moshi, Arusha and Dodoma in Tanzania including various locations in Central Africa Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo.

About Helites College
We are a middle-level institution of higher learning dedicated to excellence in serving the educational needs of the society. Our aim is to provide dynamic, innovative and competent professionals to meet the current and emerging needs in the society.

Helites College offers competitive market driven courses in our four schools: school of ICT, school of business, school of social sciences and school of education. Our programmes are accredited by national and international examination bodies including JP-UK, ABMA, ICM-UK, KASNEB, KNEC, NASCOP and ICDL among others.

Program and Content

Day 1
Basics of SPSS.
-Descriptive statistics, charts and graphs, hypothesis analysis, testing dependence/independence.
-Different levels of measure: scale, ordinal, nominal.
-Basic descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode. Measures of dispersion: range, standard deviation, variance.
-Graphs and charts: bar chart, pie chart, histogram, scatter plot. Which of them should be used in different situations?
-Hypothesis analysis with SPSS.
-Testing dependence/independence, Pearson’s chi-square. Levels of significance.

DATA HANDLING
-Reading (Opening) the Data Set from Spreadsheet Formats - e.g. – Excel, Dbase and from other Statistical Programs (SAS, STATA, etc.)
-Defining the Attributes of Variables (Variable Type, Missing Values, Column Format, Variable Labels, Perusing the Attributes of Variables)

Day 2
-Data entry
-Weighing Cases
-Creating a Smaller Data Set by Aggregating Over a Variable
-Sorting
-Reducing Sample Size using Random Sampling or a Time/Case Range
-Filtering Data using a Simple Filter or Complex Filter:
-Choosing a sub-set of data based on criterion from more than one variable
Replacing Missing Values

Day 3
-SPSS in practice, some useful tips.
-Converting different types of files
-How to enter raw data into SPSS efficiently
-How to label the data.
-Transforming the data.
-Multiple independence analysis - a useful way to circumvent

** Day 4**
-Principal Component Analysis with SPSS
-Definition and meaning of the principal component.
-Communalities, extraction, variance.
-Usability of the method (the cases of scale and ordinal measures).
-Information content and the distribution of the principal component.
-Omission of variables with insufficient communalities
-EXCEL

Day 5
Factor Analysis with SPSS using a
•The factor matrix and its interpretation.
•The Maximum Likelihood method. Repairing the model.
•Factor rotation and the varimax method.
•Omission of variables belonging to more than one factor, the appearance of latent variables.
•Establishing factor scores. Statistics of factor scores.
•When the factors explain more than 100%. A common pitfall.

Explanatory models. Analysis of Variance, Regression Analysis.
•Using SPSS for Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
•Two fold ANOVA, interaction.
•Linear regression analysis. When should we accept a regression line?
•Two variable regressions.

Day 5
Charts and tables
•Simple charts: bar, pie, histogram
•Compound charts, chart builder
•Chart editing, 3D effects, color and fill
•Adding special effect to charts, jittering, plethora of graphs
•Saving and manipulating tables

Day 6
-Practice
-Exam

HOW TO APPLY/ADMISSIONS

i) Download the application form, click the arrow or blue words Helites College Application Form.doc (69.5 KB)

ii) Fill the form.

iii) Save it with your full name and course e.g. Mary John Application SPSS

iv) Send the filled form to: [email protected]

iv) Write the subject of the email: Application SPSS

v) Wait for your admission letter on Friday 6 April 2018

vi) Pay full amount or first instalment

vii) Attend the training on the effective date

Call/WhatsApp: +254717593312

For more info: www.humanitarianelites.webs.com Our new special website www.helitescollege.com is under construction where each student will use his or her admission number to log in and download the notes

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