Using  Software for Analysis Grouping and Displaying Data  to Convey Meaning

Computer  software  packages are available  for applications of various statistical techniques like correlation coefficients regression multivariate analysis and the like. They facilitate complex analysis  with great ease and tremendous speed. It  is not always necessary  for  researchers to know computer  languages or to write programs. They just have  to learn how to use the appropriate programs  as per  the instructions contained in them.

Computer  can be  used for  generating formal models  of social systems for   simulating the  behaviour  of  persons groups  of nations and for retrieving large  amounts of documentary materials such as  abstracts of journal articles.

The  availability of computer has shifted  the emphasis in social  sciences from the study  of univariate and bihvariate problems to the study  of multivariate problems. To  be efficient predictors social  science  theories generally  need to be stated in multivariate  terms. Before  computer utilities multivariate  technique were so  tedious that they were not commonly used. The computer   have now  made  these  techniques accessible  and practical and the potential uses  of computer for research analyses stagger the imagination.