Seminar on Contemporary Issues

Students are required to finalize the topic of their seminar report in consultation with their supervisor. The report is based on systematic review of literature. Students are required to undergo a systematic review of literature and come up with a research agenda which may further be used as the basis of a research project. 30 hours lab sessions are provided for hands on training on SPSS and systematic review of literature to the students as follows for covering the following:

Systematic Review of Literature- Resource Discovery and Gathering of Information, how to review literature systematically
SPSS Statistics Environment-Data Editor, Importing data, SPSS Viewer, SPSS output exporting, Syntax Editor, Saving Files, Retrieving files
Exploring Data with Graphs- Histogram, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Scatter plots, Line Charts

Bias- Assumptions, Outliers, Additivity & Linearity, Normality, Homoscedasticity, Spotting bias and Reducing Bias,
Descriptive Analysis – Mean, Standard Deviation, Kurtosis, Skewness
Parametric Tests- one sample t test, Independent sample t test, Chi square, One Way Anova
Non Parametric Tests- Wilcoxon rank sum test, Mann-Whitney Test, Kriskal Wallis Test, Freidman’s ANOVA
Correlation- Bivariate Correlation, Partial Correlation, Comparing Correlations, Effect size of correlation, reporting correlation coffecients

Apart from the 30 hrs. lab sessions, students are required to devote 2 hrs. per week under the supervision of their respective supervisors on regular basis for guidance on report.