References

SPSS and Jamovi

• Data Analysis Guidelines

• SPSS Tutorials - LibGuides at Kent State University (http://libguides.library.kent.edu/SPSS)

  • Very useful online tutorial for SPSS

• Two-way ANOVA in SPSS Statistics (https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/two-way-anova-using-spss-statistics.php)

• Linear regression analysis using SPSS (https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/linear-regression-using-spss-statistics.php)

• SPSS Tutorials | Home (https://www.spss-tutorials.com/)

  • Another site of easy-to-read tutorials for SPSS

• A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS - CRC Press Book (https://www.crcpress.com/A-Handbook-of-Statistical-Analyses-Using-SPSS/Landau-Everitt/p/book/9781584883692)

  • Reference handbook for SPSS. Available in the THEi library.

SPSS Alternatives

You can try SPSS free for 14 days (https://www.ibm.com/hk-en/analytics/spss-trials). Alternatively, you may consider other statistical tools as well:

• Jamovi (https://www.jamovi.org/) - An open-source statistical analysis software that works very much like SPSS (easy to use, but a bit difficult to install)

• R and R Studio (https://rstudio.com/) - An open-source statistical analysis software that is popular among statisticians and data scientists (difficult to install, difficult to learn, but extremely powerful)

Statistics

SPSS is both powerful and dangerous. It is easy to analyze data in SPSS - in the wrong way - if you do not understand what you are doing. The following links to the course website of a statistics course that I have taught recently. You are suggested to browse through all the five sets of notes to review / learn some basic concepts of statistics. I will also go through some of these in our lessons.

• Statistics for Absolute Beginners (https://sites.google.com/view/statistics-thei/home)

• Statistics two-page cheat-sheet (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByLjoWChXmskMm9mbUc0VDJhT28/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-lJNX0KtUDqSeKLRrciDclg)

Here are a few video lectures by Graham R Gibbs that you may find useful:

• Central Tendency, Variability and Charts - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvy82SBYh3cJQxjrOT5J6hjY)

  • These are some of the basic concepts in descriptive statistics (corresponding to Lessons 1 and 2 in my statistics course above)

• Comparing Groups using Means and Variances - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvz8ZBNt0RHEwkzuD3jCWvY4)

  • These are inferential statistics for quantitative data (corresponding to Lessons 3, 4, and 5 in my statistics course above)

• Crosstabulations and Chi-square - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvyFJVr9oFf1ND4x6YyWj477)

  • These are inferential statistics for qualitative data (I did not cover this in my statistics course)

Qualitative Analysis

Some of you may also do qualitative analysis. The following video playlists by Gibbs will teach you how to transcribe and code your qualitative data.

• Transcription in qualitative research - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL258B9401E72EFD52)

• Coding in qualitative data analysis - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14E49EDF20613008)

The following is an example showing how to code your qualitative data using pen and paper:

• Online QDA - Examples of Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) (http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Intro_QDA/phpechopage_titleOnlineQDA-Examples_QDA.php)

Research Methods

The YouTube Channel by Gibbs above also covers other aspects of research methods. The following may be useful to you in general:

• Social Research Methods and Design - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvxaX8zZuFUSAi4jdukeexwx)

• Introduction to statistics with SPSS - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvzEoGWINiO0d2z9Fg1Xf_N0)

• Questionnaire Design - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvwO7PcqNAaFMHVKO_q9Tdee)

• Surveys and Sampling - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLirEzjzoHKvzt3Q_MBID1DeCh-wgZZRid)

• The Research Interview - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0C3243FC24FC639C)