Schedule
Due to the Covid situation we have no workshop scheduled at the moment. Please, check again as the situation improves.
Objectives
- To improve the quality of statistical analysis at CAMH by making available knowledge about statistics, models, data and software.
- To make sure that researchers are familiar with the concepts of statistics used in daily research, and know how to use them.
- To provide a lively and direct channel of communication between researchers and our group, so that we can provide timely assistance when necessary.
Workshops and Educational Material
We plan to have this website as a work in progress where we make available to the CAMH community educational resources relative to software and Statistics in general.
SPSS
Since 2016 we have had frequent series of SPSS workshops. These workshops are delivered in person, in the CAMH computer lab. They expanded from the initial introductory courses to the current series that inovlves more than 10 different topics of interest to CAMH researchers.
They have been in person, hands on workshops, where you are encoraged to work in real time with the software. We plan to keep delivering these workshops and beyond that, make available here additional resources.
Introduction to SPSS - This is a introductory text in PDF format that should help you get familiar with SPSS. It starts from a very introductory view that includes data entering and move towards covering the most important data manipulation and data inspection functions in SPSS.
Introduction to SPSS Syntax
In order for your data analysis to be reproducible, you need to keep a record of all you did. Ideally, that means everything from reading the initial dataset to your published results. When you make a change to your data in Excel, for example, it is difficult to keep a record of what you did. As a result, someone else who starts from the original dataset will not be able to find the same results as you did. Doing data cleaning and data analysis using script is the perfect way to make your research reproducible.
SPSS Syntax here does not mean SPSS programming. We just want you to know that is easy to do anything in SPSS using Syntax, and get you comfortable with it. As such, this course is very introductory, we don't expect you to be good in SPSS or in programming in order to understand it. We do expect that you know a bit of SPSS; something like what we teach in the Introduction to SPSS workshop is enough.
How does this virtual workshop work?
- Watch this video. Here I just give you a quick introduction to syntax and some tips.
- Download this SPSS Dataset, a this SPSS Syntax File.
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Statistics
Common Misuse of Statistics in Research