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Course Fee and RegistrationCourse fee - Rs.2500/- includes* Study material* SPSS & AMOS trial version CD* Lunch & refreshmentThe fee should be paid in the form of Demand Draftdrawn in favor of VIT University payable at Chennai.Last date for receipt of completed registration form alongwith DD is 15th May, 2013. Please mail your entries toProf. J. Reeves Wesley, MBA., Ph.D., FDPM (IIM-A),Prorgramme Coordinator,VIT Business School, VIT Chennai,Vandalur – Kelambakkam Road, Chennai – 600 127.Mobile: 098946 35815Email: reeveswesley.j@vit.ac.inImportant DatesReceipt of registration form and fee : 15 th May, 2013Programme Dates 20 th and 21 st May, 2013Day 18.30 am - Registration9.00 am - Inauguration• Data coding and input and import• Data Transformation in SPSS Lab• Analysis of Similarities• Correlation in SPSS Lab and interpretation• Causal Analysis• Multiple regression in SPSS Lab• Data Reduction• Explorative Factor analysis (EFA) in SPSS LabDay 2• Introduction to Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)• Hands-on-experience in Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS)• CFA using AMOS in Lab• Interpretation of CFA• Case Study on CFA -• Introduction of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)• Hand-on-experience in SEM using AMOS• Interpretation of SEM• Case Study on SEM• Feedback Session• Valedictory Function• Photo SessionVIT ChennaiVIT University for the past 25 years has made a mark inhigher education in India imparting quality education ina cross cultural ambience, intertwined with extensiveapplication oriented research. Established bywell-known educationalist and former parliamentarian,Dr. G. Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor is avisionary who transformed VIT into a center ofexcellence in advanced technical education. His dreamhas taken the shape of VIT Chennai. Dr. V. Raju,Former Professor of State University of New York,USA, currently the Vice Chancellor, strives tointernalize the world class educational standards.Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Pro-Vice Chancellor leads theteam in Chennai with the following objectives• Maximize the Industrial Connectivity• Create Centers of Excellence in niche areas of research• Enrich technological and Managerial Human Capitalnurtured in a multicultural ambience• Provide a common platform for the agglomeration ofideas of personnel from various walks of life forlearning enrichment• Create opportunities and exploit the available resourcesto benefit industry/society• Encourage participation in the National Agenda ofknowledge building• Foster International collaborations for mutual benefitsin areas of research.Data Analytics<strong>Workshop</strong> onStructural Equation Modelingusing AMOS20 th and 21 st May, 2013Organised ByVIT Business School - Chennai&SPSS South AsiaVIT - A place to learn; A chance to grow

VIT Business School under the aegis of VIT University hascreated a niche for itself as an institution promotingexcellence in management education and research withDr. Kalyani Rangarajan as its Dean. As brand Indiamarches towards a global business conglomerate, VITB-School upholds uncompromising quality and drives forunparalleled excellence. Ties with business community,MoUs with foreign Universities and faculty are sources ofsustainable competitive advantage that make VIT a meltingpot of academic, industry, research and consultancyAbout the programmeDecisions anchored on sound logic results in financialsuccess rather than that on “golden gut”. Competence builton right decisions are established with quantitative andanalytical rigor. Accordingly, analytics at work is aboutimproving performance and precision in key businessdomains and research using data and analysis.This programme helps the participants to understandpatterns in data by means of predictive modeling techniquessuch as Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) and StructuralEquation Modeling (SEM) that are critical to decisionmaking. MRA is a first generation predictive technique thatmodels the relationship between one dependent variable andmultiple independent variables and SEM is a secondgeneration technique that models simultaneous analysisbetween multiple independent and dependent variables.Also, this programme covers exploratory techniques built onalgorithms to discover tendencies in the data such asExploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) & Confirmatory FactorAnalysis (CFA).The pedagogy is an optimum mix of lectures, cases andclassroom discussions. Hands-on experience in MRA andEFA using Statistical Package for Social Science 20 (SPSS)and SEM and CFA using Analysis of Moment Structures 19(AMOS) will be given.Who can attendBusiness analysts, consultants, researchers and teachingfaculty in business management, economics, commerce,agriculture, biology, sociology, psychology, populationstudies etc., can attend.Use of data and analysis in decision making is sometimesthought of as esoteric, however contrarily, the growingimportance of data and analysis is largely due to its ease ofuse. This programme opens the door for analysts andresearchers to build predictive and explorative business andresearch models that once would have required the servicesof a specialist.Resource PersonJ. Reeves Wesley is a Professor in VIT B-School, VITChennai. He holds a Ph.D in Management and is an alumnusof Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. He haspresented papers in International conferences in Europe. Hehas authored several papers in leading peer reviewedInternational and National journals and contributed chaptersin books published by Allied, Vikas and Kalyani publishers.His areas of interest include Data Mining, BusinessAnalytics and Organisational Behaviour.He has undertaken funded research projects on ‘LabourLaws’ and has anchored more than 40 programmes on DataAnalytics for industries and faculty. He is presentlyauthoring a book titled: ‘Data Analysis for BusinessDecisions’. He is the recipient of the “BEST TEACHERAWARD – 2010” instituted by Coimbatore ManagementAssociation in collaboration with All India ManagementAssociation.Data Analytics<strong>Workshop</strong> onStructural Equation Modelingusing AMOS20 th and 21 st May, 2013Registration FormName : .......................................................................Designation : …………………………….......……………Organization : .......................................................................Address for Correspondence: ……………………………....................................................................................................................................................................................................PIN Code: ..............................................................................Phone : ……………………..………………….………..E-mail : ..............................................................................Payment DetailsAmount : …...........................................................................DD No and Date: ...................................................................(In favour of VIT University Chennai Campus, payable at Chennai)Name of Bank & Branch: ......................................................Date:Signature