Four Days Workshop on Statistics for Research

Posted on: 21 Feb 2014

Department of Statistics is organizing a four-day workshop on “Statistics for Research” for the faculty members and the research students of GCUF from 10-13 March, 2014. The workshop is designed keeping in view the requirements of the researchers of different disciplines. Five participants from junior faculty /M.Phil. /Ph.D students may kindly be nominated from each department. The registration form is attached herewith. The registration will remain open till the first week of March 2014. The participants will be registered on first come first basis due to limited availability of seats.

Statistics Workshop Registration Form

Session 1: 10:30 A.M – 01:00 P.M		Research Methodology
Date: 10-03-2014		Definition and types of Research Types of variables Methods of Collecting the Information Scales of Measurement Construction of Questionnaires Types of Probability and Non-probability Sampling
Session 2: 2:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M		Introduction to SPSS
Date: 10-03-2014		Introduction to SPSS How to Create a Worksheet in SPSS Data Entry in SPSS Data Editing Importing and Exporting Data Lab work
Session 3: 10:00 A.M – 1:00 P.M		Introduction to SPSS/ MINITAB
Date: 11-03-2014		Transformation of Variables Recode Command Merge Files/Split Files Sort Cases/Rank Cases Compute New Variables Case Selection Descriptive Statistics (Frequency Distribution, Average, Dispersion etc) Graphs/Charts (Histogram, Bar Charts, Stem and Leaf Plot, Scatter Plot, Box Plot etc) Lab work Introduction to MINITAB How to Create a Worksheet in MINITAB Data Entry in MINITAB Data Editing Importing and Exporting Data Transformation of Variables Sort Cases/Rank Cases Compute New Variables Descriptive Statistics (Frequency Distribution, Average, Dispersion etc) Graphs/Charts (Histogram, Bar Charts, Stem and Leaf Plot, Scatter Plot, Box Plot etc) Lab work
Session 4: 2:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M		Testing of Hypothesis (Parametric Inference)
Date: 11-03-2014		Basic Concept t-test and z-test One sample t-test Independent Samples t-test Paired Samples t-test Chi-Square Test of Independence Contingency Tables Lab Work
Session 5: 10:00 A.M – 1:00 P.M		Testing of Hypothesis (Non-Parametric Inference)
Date: 12-03-2014		One Sample Inference Two Sample Inference More than two sample Inference Lab Work
Session 6: 2:00 P.M – 04:00 P.M		Regression and Correlation Analysis
Date: 12-03-2014		Basic Concept Correlation Analysis ( Simple & Rank) Simple Linear Regression Analysis Coefficient of Determination Multiple Linear Regression Analysis
Session 7: 10:00 A.M – 1:00 P.M		Analysis Of Variance/Design of Experiment
Date: 13-03-2014		Design of Experiment One Way Analysis of Variance Two Way Analysis of Variance Multiple Comparison Tests Using Design Expert
Session 8: 2:00 P.M – 4:00 P.M		Closing Session
Date: 13-03-2014		Recitation of Holy Quran and Naat Concluding Remarks by Dean (S&T) GCUF Prof. Dr. Noureen Aziz Qureshi Address by the Vice Chancellor GCUF Prof. Dr. Zakir Hussain Distribution of Certificates Vote of Thanks by Dr. Tanvir Ahmad

Note: All the participants are directed to bring a laptop and notebook with themselves. The Department will assist in software installation during February, 2014.

Resource Persons

Dr. Tanvir Ahmad
Dr. Faisal Maqbool Zahid
Dr. Sajjad Haider Bhatti
Mr. Ali Raza
Mr. Muhammad Irfan
Mr. Muhammad Abid