CIVIL SERVICES ACADEMY,

CTP WING WALTON CAMPUS,

48th Common Training Programme

QUANTITATIVE TOOLS FOR DECISION MAKING

Syllabus (First Term)

Topic Description
Introduction of Course
Evidence based decision
Data analysis and decision making
making: Introduction
Types of data: Metric, Non-metric Data
Getting to Know SPSS
Orientation of SPSS
Creating a data file and entering data
Important definition: Variable, attribute
Understanding statistical Source of data: Primary and secondary data
concepts and terminology Measures of central Tendency
Statistical Graphs
Preliminary Analysis Manipulating the data
Descriptive statistics
using SPSS Graphs Using SPSS
Concept of dispersion
Measure of dispersion
Application of dispersion in decision Making
Use of SPSS for Measure of dispersion
Concept of Normality
calculating dispersion a Empirical Rule
Correlation
Correlation