This course provides an overview of the widely-used statistical methods in scientific research and the fundamentals of using the SPSS Base System. The course introduces the interfaces and functions of SPSS and teaches the skills necessary to perform a variety of statistical analyses with both user-friendly interface and syntax. The topics of this course include an overview of SPSS, managing data, creating and editing charts and tables, describing variables, conducting t tests, one-way ANOVA, multi-way ANOVA, correlation, regression and advanced statistical methods like nonparametric analyses, factor analysis, reliability analysis and etc. This course has a companion course "SPSS advanced statistics – laboratory”, which is to be taken at the same time.
Mathematics
数学源自于古希腊语，是研究数量、结构、变化以及空间模型等概念的一门学科。透过抽象化和逻辑推理的使用，由计数、计算、量度和对物体形状及运动的观察中产生。数学的基本要素是：逻辑和直观、分析和推理、共性和个性。
