Advanced Statistical Techniques

Paper Code: 
RMT 332
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
90.00
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.

 

3.00

 

·        Meaning functions and abuse of statistics in social work research

·        Frequency distribution types and shapes of distribution

 

 

3.00

 

·        Proportions, percentage and ratios

·        Measures of Variability-Variation Ratio, Index of Qualitative Variation

·        Criteria for selecting useful variability measure.

 

3.00

 

·        Association: Meaning, Characteristics, Degree, Direction and Nature.

3.00
  • Inferential Statistics
  • Normal Curve :Meaning and Characteristics
  • Area under Normal Curve, Transforming raw scores to Z scores.
3.00

 

·        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.

Academic Session: 
2014-15
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