Course Objectives:
- To privide an overview of the major statistical techniques used by tourism researchers
- To provide guidelines for understanding what types of statistical techniques are appropriate for analyzing selected types of tourism research questions
- To learn how to conduct data analysis using IBM SPSS (i.e., Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)
- To provide experience interpreting SPSS computer printouts and constructing data tables/figures for communicating with technical and non-technical audiences
- To provide assistance and experience in critically evaluating statistical analyses presented in published tourism literature
This course can be applied toward:
Textbooks and Materials
Optional
- Survey Research and Analysis: Applications in parks, Recreation and human dimensions (2008)
Vaske, J.J.
Not available at the CSU Bookstore
Instructors
Leann Sullivan
Instructor