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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Geography
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Tali Bdolah-Abram
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Ms. Tali Bdolah-Abram
Course/Module description:
The course is meant to expand the knowledge and familiarity with statistical terms & models, emphasizing applying statistical tests to analyze data, using the SPSS program. A brief theoretical background will be given to each tool & test, as well as learning how to apply the test using SPSS.
Course/Module aims:
To help the students to
acquire skills that enable them to perform basic statistical analysis of data
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1.To learn to oraganize a data base for ststistical analysis.
2.To understand how to choose the appropriate statistical test for analyzing variables in the data.
3.To learn to use statistical tests using SPSS.
4. to learn to summarize the statistical analysis & draw conclusions.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures and exercises applying SPSS
Course/Module Content:
1. Creating a data base in SPSS, including creating new variables.
2. Descriptive statistics methods including graphs, using SPSS.
3. Correlation coefficient, simple/multiple linear regression
4. t-test: 1-sample, 2-samples, paired
5. ANOVA
6. Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test
7. Logistic regression
8. Non-parametric tests
Required Reading:
DISCOVERING STATISTICS USING SPSS, Fifth edition, By Andy Field, Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
Additional Reading Material:
DISCOVERING STATISTICS USING SPSS, Fifth edition, By Andy Field, Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
Grading Scheme :
Written Exam % 100
Additional information:
The score of the final exam is the cousrse's score.
Conditions for being able to take the exam: submitting 75% of exercises given during the course, and handing in of a midterm exercise.
The book which is (very)recommended as reading material is not mandatory
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