The Research Workshop Series – II was organized by the Post Graduate Department of Commerce (M. Com) on 2nd & 9th March 2024. The aim was to equip M. Com Part I & II students with the skills to handle, analyse, and interpret data using SPSS.
The first session was held on 2nd March 2024 in the Smart Classroom. Dr. Kaustabh Kamat, Assistant Director, was the Resource Person for the session introducing the audience to the basics of primary data analysis. He started off the session with the basics in research that included briefing the students on research objectives, types of errors, hypotheses and significance level. The session covered different types of variables, how they can be coded in SPSS, measures of central tendency like mean, median, and mode, the concept of skewness, and how to create a box plot in SPSS.
The second session was held on 9th March 2024 in Classroom No. T-302. The session commenced at 1:30 p.m. and covered advanced topics in data analysis. The session emphasized that a lower standard deviation is desirable as it indicates that the data points are closer to the mean. It also covered the independent sample t-test, parametric tests, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), non-parametric tests, the Kruskal Wallis test, the chi-square test, Impulsive Response Test along with their interpretation and an introduction to factor analysis. Both sessions ended at 4:30 p.m.
These sessions provided the students with a practical understanding on IBM-SPSS software and was a significant step towards enabling the students to effectively use SPSS for data analysis in their research papers.
