1st SPSS (statistical analysis in social science) – Internal workshop on legal research methodology

Saveetha school of law, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences organized a internal  workshop on legal research methodology-SPSS on 13th August 2019. This workshop was Organised / conducted  by Mrs S.P. VIDYASSRI  AND Ms R. ARYA  exclusively for the first year students. Internal Faculties named Dr B SREEYA  Associate Professor and Ms ARUNA Asst professor having more than 12 years of experience in Teaching as well as SPSS /research were the Guest – Speakers of this workshop.  Over 180 students participated in the workshop. The main objective of the workshop is to introduce the importance of legal research to the first year students belongs to different courses under Law and give them a proper training for the upcoming quarters in the area of Empirical research. The students were taught about the SPSS Software, which is helpful in doing empirical study in Law. 

SPSS is a widely used program for statistical analysis in social science. It is also used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners, and others. SPSS Statistics places constraints on internal file structure, data types, data processing, and matching files, which together considerably simplify programming. SPSS datasets have a two-dimensional table structure, where the rows typically represent cases (such as individuals or households) and the columns represent measurements (such as age, sex, or household income). The students participated in the workshop gained knowledge regarding spss. Speakers of this programme taught about categorical, dichotomous question, multiple choice question, scaling question, scaling data, coding ,scale : ANOVAs , correlation( relationship) Categorical: chi-square (association) and to calculate the frequency of null and alternative Hypothesis