Course Contents

(1)Minitab,Entering Data and Creating variables,Stem and Leaf Display, Descriptive Statistics: Mean, Median, Standard deviation, Standard error of mean, Minimum, Maximum, First quartile, Third quartile, Box plot Random data,Confidence interval, 1-sample Z, 1-sample t,ANOVA,Coefficient of Correlation,Regression (Simple and Multiple), Chi-square test(2) Statistical Package for Social Sciences [SPSS], Introduction to SPSS for Windows, Using SPSS for windows, Menus, Toolbars, Status Bar, Dialog Boxes, Specifying Data, Using Point and Click Method, Getting Help (3) Data Files: Creating a New Data File, Opening and Saving Data, Data Editor(4) Output, One-Variable Descriptive Statistics, Two Variable Descriptive Statistics, Linear Regression, Non-Linear Regression , Logistic regression analysis , Correlation, T-TEST ( Independent and Paired), ANOVA F-Test, Chi-square test (5) Working with Output, Output files, output navigator, editing Output, Using SPSS output in other applications (6) Create and Modify Chart in SPSS

Course Synopsis

The objective of this course is:to provide a secondary knowledge of computer application and to equip the students with modern softwares that are used for data management, calculation and interpretation.This course will facilitate the students in doing empirical economic research. This course will develop the skills of students to analyse and interpret the empirically analysed relationships of economic variables.

Course Learning Outcomes

After the completion of the course the students will be able to understand the use of computer application in research and data analysis.The students will be able to use MINITAB for data analysis.The student will also be able to use SPSS software for data tabulation, manipulation and interpretation.