Tag: Maths and Statistics Support Centre

Laura Pearson and Phil Assheton are running further MASH workshops in the library to help you with all your maths and stats needs.

Please Email MASH@lincoln.ac.uk to book on to any of the workshops below:

Introduction to SPSS (Beginner) – Monday 4^th March 2-3pm (ul101)

This is for you if you have not used SPSS yet. It is a brief overview of what it is and how to navigate around it. By the end of this session you will know how to input various forms of data and run some analysis to gain descriptives and frequencies.

t-tests on SPSS (Intermediate) – Monday 4^th March 3-4pm (ul101)

This is for you if you know a bit about SPSS, maybe had some work using SPSS in previous years and are a little rusty. By the end of this session you will know how to set up a data set for the different t-tests, to run the analysis and begin to interpret the output.

Correlations on SPSS (Intermediate) – Tuesday 5^th March 2-3pm (ul101)

This is for you if you know a bit about SPSS, maybe had some work using SPSS in previous years and are a little rusty. By the end of this session you will know how to set up a data set for correlations, to run the analysis and begin to interpret the output. You will conduct both a Parametric (pearsons) and a Non-Parametric (spearmans) Correlation.

Non-Parametric Tests of Difference on SPSS (Intermediate) – Tuesday 5^th March 3-4pm (ul101)

This is for you if you would like to carry out a Man-Whitney U test or a Wilcoxons T test. These are non-parametric tests for continuous data on Unrelated and Related data respectively. By the end of this session you will know how to set up data for the two tests, run them and begin to interpret the output.

ANOVA’s on SPSS (Advanced) – Wednesday 6^th March 10-11.30am (ul101)

This is for you if you have used SPSS and know you would like to do an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). During this session you will run several different ANOVA’s and given help to recognise which to use.

An Introduction To Linear Regression – Thursday  14^th March 2-3PM (ul101)

This session will present a basic introduction to the process we use for finding straight-line relationships between variables.  You will be given a very simple overview to help you interpret the  SPSS output and understand the nature of the relationship in your data.  It is expected that you should already know how to enter data into SPSS (see other workshops if you need to fill this in!).

SPSS – Bespoke Workshops

If you would like a workshop on SPSS for you and a group of your fellow students please contact us with your needs. We can run workshops at various times to suit both students and tutor.

Excel – Bespoke Workshops

These will be Student led workshops. Once again, let us know your needs and we can arrange suitable workshops once there is a fair demand.

Please email MASH@lincoln.ac.uk to show interest in any of these workshops.

If you have not found the workshop that you were hoping to, please email us with your workshop suggestion.