Intermediate: Categorical Data Analysis

Course description

This course builds on the skills taught in the introductory courses and aims to introduce a few statistical tests that support the analysis of categorical data. Theoretical considerations related to the selection of an appropriate statistical test as well as assumptions involved are addressed.

The course is aimed to be practically oriented with extensive use of the IBM SPSS and Stata statistical packages.

The details of the connection to the Web Conference will be emailed to enrolled participants a day before the course and again an hour before the event. Please contact stats.consultant@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to this course.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

Staff and Research Higher Degree Students

What you will learn

• Pearson’s chi-square test
• Fisher’s exact test
• McNemar test
• Assumptions related to the statistical techniques listed above
  

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

Preferably participants should attend Introduction to SPSS, Introduction to Stata, Introduction to Statistical Analysis and Intermediate: Understanding Your Data and Checking Assumptions (or have an understanding of concepts/skills covered in the listed above courses) before enrolling in this workshop.