Training Courses: Data management using SPSS syntax and Multilevel modelling using SPSS; Sheffield, Nov 2009
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Training Courses: Data management using SPSS syntax and Multilevel modelling using SPSS; Sheffield, Nov 2009
 
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A quick advertisement for a series of statistics courses provided by Figure It Out, the statistical consultancy unit at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, in June 2009. The courses are particularly aimed at researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students from the fields of psychology, HR, management, sociology, and the social sciences more generally. Data Management using SPSS Syntax: Thursday 12th November 2009 Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling using MPlus: Friday 13th November 2009, and also repeated on Friday 27th November 2009 Multi-level Modelling using SPSS: Thursday 26th November 2009 The standard rate for each course is £275, the student rate is £200. If you attend two or more of the courses you get a further 50 pound discount on the total cost. Details of the courses are given below: for further information and to book a place, go to http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/trainingcourses.htm Note that the course booking secretary has changed from previous events, and is now Charlotte McClelland: [hidden email] These courses, plus two further courses (on Multiple Regression, and Questionnaire Scale Construction and Validation), are also available on an inhouse basis: see http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/bespoketraining.htm cheers Chris ******* Course details for each course are as follows: ******* -|- Data management using SPSS syntax -|- Thursday 12th November, 2009; 9.45am to 5.15pm, at IWP, University of Sheffield -|- -|- Who is the course aimed at? This course is aimed at a very wide audience, namely anyone who ever has to handle data using SPSS! There are very few grey areas in managing data - your data is either accurate or it is not. And if it is not, then it is more than likely that the results from your analysis of it will be incorrect too. Learn to improve your data managment skills and hence create more time for the more interesting parts of a study i.e. the analysis of it, safe in the knowledge that you are working from an accurate, fully documented data set. Using the SPSS syntax language to import, organise and manipulate your data is substantially more efficient time-wise than using the menus, and has the dual advantages of simple repeatability and of providing an audit trail for your work. Course examples and data sets will largely come from survey data, but the skills learned are applicable and widely transferable to an incredibly wide variety of scenarios. -|- Course level: Whilst some previous experience of using SPSS via the menus (i.e. point and click) is expected, no previous experience in using the SPSS syntax language is required. -|- Course content and aims: The course will cover the following topics: - Starting with syntax - why use SPSS syntax, the basics of writing and running syntax; determining when your command runs - Some simple SPSS commands - opening and saving files, describing data via frequencies, descriptives and crosstabs - Reading data into SPSS from other formats - handling text format, Excel format data, - Defining and documenting data, variable names, variable labels, value labels, missing value, formatting data - Creating new variables - recoding, computing, count, performing calculations on subsets via DO IF - END IF, making multiple calculations using DO REPEAT loops - Manipulating cases - selecting subsets of data for analysis, filtering files, splitting files, sorting cases - Manipulating files - aggregating files, restructuring files, matching files, adding cases, updating files - Data Management: a worked example - best practice for creating and managing a complex data set -|- Course Format: The course will take the form of a mixture of teaching via examples worked through by the trainer on real data sets which participants can follow, exercises to practice the skills just learned, and a few short demonstrations of the further capabilities of SPSS syntax. You will also receive a 50-page coursebook containg all the notes and worked examples, providing an easy reference and reminder for the techniques you have learned. -|- Course schedule: The course will start at 9.45am, with a lunch break from 1pm-2pm, and short coffee breaks at 11.30am and 3.30pm. It will finish at around 5pm, though I will be willing to stay on for a while after this and to answer questions pertinent to participants' own data sets or any other multi-level modelling queries you may have. For further information and to book a place, go to http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/trainingcourses.htm *********** -|- Multi-level Modelling using SPSS -|- Thursday 26th November, 2009; 9.45am to 5.15pm, at IWP, University of Sheffield -|- -|- Who is the course aimed at? This course is aimed at two distinct groups. It is primarily designed as a beginners' course in multi-level modelling (AKA Hierarchical Linear Modelling), for those who face the challenge of working with multi-level data sets and want to be able to analyse them in the most powerful and accurate way. However it should also appeal to those with a little experience of multi-level modelling using other specialist packages who now want to learn how to run such models in SPSS using the MIXED MODELS menu and commands. -|- Course level: A reasonable working knowledge of multiple regression and some previous experience of using SPSS to perform statistical analysis is expected. No previous experience of multi-level modelling will be assumed. -|- Course content and aims: The course will cover the following topics: - Introduction to multi-level data - what it is and why it requires special treatment - Restructuring Data in preparation for multi-level modelling - What is a multi-level model? - Building and fitting a multi-level model in SPSS - Further issues in multi-level modelling: centering, sample size and scaling - Advanced multi-level models: analysing longitudinal data and cross-sectional data using multi-level modelling in SPSS -|- Course Format: The course comprises of a mixture of short lectures on the basic theory behind multi-level models, teaching via examples worked through by the trainer on real data sets which participants can follow, and exercises to practice the skills just learned. You will also receive a 60-page coursebook containing all the notes and worked examples, providing an easy reference and reminder for the techniques you have learned. -|- Course schedule: The course will start at 9.45am, with a lunch break from 1pm-2pm, and short coffee breaks at 11.30am and 3.30pm. It will finish at around 5pm, though I will be willing to stay on for a while after this and to answer questions pertinent to participants' own data sets or any other multi-level modelling queries you may have. For further information and to book a place, go to http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/trainingcourses.htm *********** -|- Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling using MPlus -|- Friday 13th November and repeated on Friday 27th November, 2009; both dates: 9.45am to 5.15pm, at IWP, University of Sheffield -|- -|- Who is the course aimed at? This course is aimed at two distinct groups; those seeking a beginners' course in Path Analysis techniques such as Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA); and those with some previous experience of Structural Equation Modelling who wish to learn to use the powerful and elegant MPlus software, which can be employed in an incredibly wide range of model fitting scenarios. -|- Course level: A basic knowledge of Exploratory Factor Analysis and the ideas behind multiple regression analysis will be advantageous to participants. No previous knowledge or experience with SEM or Mplus is assumed -|- Course content and aims: The course will cover the following topics: - Introduction to Path Analysis - what is it and why do we need it? - Assessing the fit of a Structural Equation Model - Comparing competing Structural Equation Models - Preparing and importing data into Mplus from SPSS - Getting started with analysis in MPlus - the basics of the language - Fitting a simple Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Mplus - Fitting a simple Structural Equation Model in Mplus - Testing for indirect effects in Structural Equation Models - Fitting Structural Equation Models with missing data - Including Categorical variables in Structural Equation Models - Multiple group analysis -|- Course Format: The course comprises of a mixture of short lectures on the basic theory behind Structural Equation Models, teaching via examples worked through by the trainer on real data sets which participants can follow, and exercises to practice the skills just learned. You will also receive a 50-page coursebook containing all the notes and worked examples, providing an easy reference for the basics of performing SEM in MPLus, and as a reminder for the techniques you have learned. -|- Course schedule: The course will start at 9.45am, with a lunch break from 1pm-2pm, and short coffee breaks at 11.30am and 3.30pm. It will finish at around 5pm, though I will be willing to stay on for a while after this to answer questions pertinent to participants' own data sets or any other Structural Equation Modelling queries you may have. For further information and to book a place, go to http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/trainingcourses.htm *** for all four courses above *** The trainer: Dr Chris Stride has been using SPSS in his work as a statistician and data manager for the last 12 years. He has particular experience and expertise in teaching non-statisticians from the fields of psychology, HR, management and the social sciences. He is a Chartered Statistician and a member of the ASSESS (UK SPSS Users Group) Committee; and has been running statistical training courses at the University of Sheffield and on an inhouse basis to Universities and Public Sector organisations over the past few years. -- Dr Chris Stride, C. Stat, Statistician, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield Telephone: 0114 2223262 Fax: 0114 2727206 “Figure It Out” Statistical Consultancy and Training Service for Social Scientists Visit www.figureitout.org.uk for details of my consultancy services and forthcoming training courses in November 2009: - Data Management using SPSS Syntax - Multilevel Modelling using SPSS - Structural Equation Modelling using MPlus ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. 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Re: Training Courses: Data management using SPSS syntax and Multilevel modelling using SPSS; Sheffield, Nov 2009
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Chris
Feel free to use any of the SPSS and other stuff on
my webpage http://independent.academia.edu/JohnFHall
The first entry
under Teaching http://independent.academia.edu/JohnFHall/attachment/345163/full/Guide-to-learning-materials-and-SPSS is
a navigation guide to all currently available teaching materials based on the
postgraduate course Survey Analysis Workshop I ran from
1976 to 1992 when I took early retirement. The entry level course was
aimed at graduates in sociology and related students with little or no previous
experience of computers or statistics, so it's probably a bit basic for people
on your course, but other students and beginning researchers may find it
useful. Even experienced SPSS-ers may discover a thing or two they didn't
know before, especially about file construction, documentation, data
transformation and tabulation. All
contents are freely downloadable.
I take it you won't be using Julie
Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual as she's not written a
single syntax line in the whole book. Out of greed (for a free book) and
vanity ( I used to be known amongst UK colleagues as "Mr SPSS") and in spite of
having been retired for ten years, I offered to review the book for the Social
Research Association. When the book arrived I discovered to my horror that
it was for the Windows version!
I'd only ever used SPSS-X on a VAX mainframe with
VMS and EDT (and occasionally SPSSPC+ on a PC) Also I'd never used a
mouse, Windows or MS-Word before, only keyboard, MSDOS and WordStar4!
Talk about steep learning curves to get the review finished! I found
Pallant very sympathetic to readers, but incredibly irritating. She
exclusively uses drop-down menus and doesn't write a single
syntax statement of her own in the whole book. Apart from
that it's sympathetic to desperate dissertation students and OK for
psychometrics etc., but not social researchers. I found the mouse and
drop-down menus so tiresome that instead of 350 words I produced 3,500 or
so in my review for the Social Research Association. It was much reduced
for publication, but the full original critical review, with loads of SPSS
synatx comments, is on the site: http://independent.academia.edu/JohnFHall/Papers/76935/Review-of-Julie-Pallant--SPSS-Survival-Manual.
On the strength of this review, and provided I did
not use it for personal gain, I was given a
free five-year licence to SPSS11 to enable me to prepare SPSS teaching materials
based on the postgraduate Survey Analysis Workshop I designed
and taught at the Polytechnic of North London from 1976 to
1992. I and others had always thought
them worthy of wider circulation and I duly set about updating and
converting them, intending to set up some sort of website where everyone could
freely access them.
My experiences of SPSS since 1972 and with
Pallant and SPSS for Windows since 2002 prompted me to offer a presentation to
ASSESS (SPSS users) for their annual confab in 2006. Preparation for this
took hundreds of hours, but I think the final result was worth
the effort. It's quite long as it was an opportunity to get (perhaps too
much) disparate stuff on record: with hindsight it could probably be broken up
into smaller chunks. Some of it is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the
underlying message is deadly serious. I
couldn't use the full text at the conference, but used some slide shows
instead. It should have kicked off with a very appropropriate movie clip
to show what happens when the mouse takes over SPSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYAKBgJnM24 but their system wouldn't
play it, so I had to stick with the slide shows. The full paper is in the
Papers section as http://independent.academia.edu/JohnFHall/Papers/76875/Old-Dog--Old-Tricks--Using-SPSS-Syntax-to-Avoid-the-Mouse-Trap and
the five accompanying slide shows are in the Talks
section. The first one is fun and the last one is a demolition of
Pallant's exercises demonstrating the clear superiority of syntax over drop-down
menus, with a bit of fun at the end (if you're old enough to get the Magic
Roundabout reference).
When my 5-year licence expired in 2007 I
joined the SPSS academic author program and now have a free licence (renewable
every six months, actually today!) for SPSS15, all materials to be made
available to SPSS Inc as well as the world of social (survey)
research.
John Hall
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