Advanced Statistical Techniques

Paper Code: 
RMT 332
Credits: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course plan aims to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of quantitative data analysis. The course provides exposure to the students to use of statistical package in social sciences.

  • Meaning functions and abuse of statistics in social work research

Frequency distribution types and shapes of distribution

  • Proportions, percentage and ratios
  • Measures of Variability-Variation Ratio, Index of Qualitative Variation
  • Criteria for selecting useful variability measure.
  • Association: Meaning, Characteristics, Degree, Direction and Nature.
  • Inferential Statistics
  • Normal Curve :Meaning and Characteristics

Area under Normal Curve, Transforming raw scores to Z scores.

  • Software for Higher Statistical Analysis : SPSS and its Applications.
References: 
  • Wright, Susan E. 1986  Social Science Statistics. Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.
  • Loether, H.J. & McTavish, Donald. 1974  Inferential Statistics for Sociologists.

            Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.

  • Kurtz, Norman R. 1983  Introduction to Social Statistics. Paris: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
  • Elifson et al. 1990  Fundamentals of Social Statistics. McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
  • Levin, Jack .1983  Elementary Statistics in Social Research. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
  • Cohen, Louis & Holliday, Michael. 1982 Statistics for Social Scientists. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
  • Malec, Michael, A. 1977 Essential Statistics for Social Research. New York: J.B.Lippincott Co.
  • Ahuja. Ram. 2006, Research Methods, Rawat Publications.
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