The Fisher Valley College

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY

“A Christ-centered Institution”
No. 5, Manuel L. Quezon St., Hagonoy, Taguig City

Course Syllabus
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WITH SOFTWARE APPLICATION
3 units

2nd Semester, A.Y. 2019-2020

CLASS SCHEDULE: Thursday, 7:00-10:00, Room 308

PROFESSOR: Marlon B. Raquel, LPT

Juris Doctor
Doctor in Business Administration

EMAIL ADDRESS: tfvcdbaa@gmail.com

RESOURCE MATERIALS: Any book on statistics

SPSS software

Laptop

Other books

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is primarily intended for accountancy students who will be preparing an
Accountancy Research during the 1st semester of the 4th Year Level. Students learn
statistical techniques for further study in business, economics, finance, and accounting.
The course covers introduction to SPSS, sampling distributions, probability, confidence
intervals, hypothesis testing, correlations, regression, basic modeling, analysis of
variance, and chi-square tests. The primary software to be used is the Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. Organize and present quantitative data such that trends and conclusions are
suggested.

2. Infer some characteristics of a population by examining a portion of the population.

3. Compare characteristics of different populations.

4. Make informed decisions in a probabilistic business environment.

5. Think critically with respect to quantitative information.

6. Write and present a mini-research paper.

COURSE OUTLINE:

WEEK TOPIC TASKS

WEEK 1 Introduction
Discussion of Syllabus

WEEK 2 1. Introduction
SPSS Exercise #1
-Introduction to SPSS
-Data analysis with SPSS: general
aspects, workflow, critical issues

-SPSS: general description, functions,

menus, commands

-SPSS file management

WEEK 3 2. Input and data cleaning

SPSS Exercise #2
-Defining variables

-Manuel input of data

-Automated input of data and file

import

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WEEK 4 & 5 3. Data manipulation

-Data transformation SPSS Exercise #3

-Syntax files and scripts

-Output management

WEEK 6 4. Descriptive analysis of data

-Frequencies
SPSS Exercise #4
-Descriptives

-Explore

-Crosstabs

-Charts

WEEK 7-9 5. Statistical tests

-Means SPSS Exercise #5

-T-test
SPSS Exercise #6
-One-way ANOVA

-Non-parametric tests

-Normality tests

WEEK 10 MIDTERM EXAMINATION

WEEK 11-13 6. Correlation and regression

SPSS Exercise #7
-Linear correlation and regression
SPSS Exercise #8

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 -Multiple linear regression

WEEK 14-15 7. Multivariate Analysis

SPSS Exercise #9
-Factor analysis
SPSS Exercises #10
-Cluster analysis
Submission of DRAFT
FULL (COMPLETED)
MINI-RESEARCH
PAPER.

Submission of FINAL
WEEK 16 Consultations MINI-RESEARCH
PAPER

WEEK 17 Oral presentation of mini-research

paper

WEEK 18 FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

SPSS Exercises 25%

Mini-Research Paper 20%

Midterm Exam 20%

Final Exam 20%

Attendance 10%

Recitation 5%

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