Research Methodology - SPSS Training for Financial Analytics

The School of Commerce, Accountancy and Management, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Lavasa Campus, organised an online Guest Lecture on 14/9/2021 and 16/9/2021; the target audience being the 3 BCom division A and B students. The speaker was Dr Pooja Chaturvedi Sharma, Assistant Professor of Finance & Accounting, Apeejay School of Management and the topic was Research Methodology - SPSS Training for Financial Analytics.

Objectives of the Activity
  • The major learnings of the activities were how to improve skills in importing data, Transforming Variables, Data Screening through Descriptive Statistics and also the Hands-on Training of SPSS Interface.
  • Using various analytics tools like ANOVA, Correlation, Regression and Chi Square independent test, Hypotheses testing and factor analysis, was provided to understand the SPSS Interface.



Execution of Activity/ Proceedings (In detail):

DAY – 1
  • Ms Merin Thomas from 3 BCom B commenced the session by explaining the Guest lecture series on SPSS.
  • Ms Himanshi Sharma of 3 BCom A gave an overall introduction of Dr Pooja Chaturvedi Sharma (Assistant Professor, Finance and Accounting Apeejay School of Management) both Dean, Fr Jossy P George, Academic coordinator Fr Arun Antony, Assistant Professor Dr Mahesh Kumar T and Dr Manjari Sharma.
  • Mam started by giving a brief introduction to SPSS and gave us what, how, why SPSS is used to analyse different datasets, and also explained the general capabilities of the same.
  • She described how to copy and paste data, Altering the data and variable types, changing labels and imputing values, sorting cases and selecting cases and how to Recode and transform variables.
  • Her presentation continued with explaining descriptive statistics and creating charts using SPSS.
  • Ms Sweta Nandi of 3 BCom A closed the ceremony with a vote of thanks for day-1.
DAY – 2
  • Ms Merin Thomas started the session with a warm welcome once again, which was carried by Mr Shashwat Seth of 3 BCom B by giving an overview of the previous session.
  • In the second session mam explained about all the analytic tools (ANOVA, Correlation, Regression and Chi Square independent test, Hypotheses testing and factor analysis) and it’s uses, examples and assumptions and how to report those findings.
  • She also explained about the Parametric and Non- Parametric test during the course.
  • All these analyses were carried over in two datasets that were shared during the course.
  • Ms Sweta Nandi closed the ceremony with a vote of thanks and applauded the guest speaker for her immense efforts

Outcomes:
  • Rather explaining about the analytical tools, she gave us proper understanding, assumptions and it’s uses in Research Methodology.
  • She explained to us by showing the final outcome in a table form and showing us how to measure the accuracy of the data.
  • We also came to know about new statistical tools such as Chi square independent test and Factor Analysis.
  • The SPSS interface was the same as Excel sheets, but there were two different views in the SPSS interface: Data and Variable view.
Student Feedback


Parameters for Feedback
  • Ability to identify the Scale of Variables
  • Able to analyse the final outcome in a table form and showing us how to measure the accuracy of the data
  • Able to use SPSS Analytical tools like ANOVA, Correlation, Regression etc.,
  • Able to understand Hypothesis














































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