Discovering Statistics Using SAS
- Andy Field - University of Sussex, UK
- Jeremy Miles - RAND Corporation, USA
The book provides a comprehensive collection of statistical methods, tests and procedures, covering everything you're likely to need to know for your course, all presented in Andy's accessible and humourous writing style. Suitable for those new to statistics as well as students on intermediate and more advanced courses, the book walks students through from basic to advanced level concepts, all the while reinforcing knowledge through the use of SAS®.
A 'cast of characters' supports the learning process throughout the book, from providing tips on how to enter data in SAS® properly to testing knowledge covered in chapters interactively, and 'real world' and invented examples illustrate the concepts and make the techniques come alive.
The book's companion website (see link above) provides students with a wide range of invented and real published research datasets. Lecturers can find multiple choice questions and PowerPoint slides for each chapter to support their teaching.
Supplements
Excellent guide to SAS for Psychology students
I chose this book because of the entertaining and highly comprehensive style of writing. This book is a useful guide for the students regarding statistical and methodolgical questions during the research project. All theoretical questions are closely connected to the implementation in SAS to provide assistance in understanding and conducting research.
The course is focusing on SPSS instead of SAS
The book is suitable for both undergraduate and post graduate courses.
Excellent introduction to statistics using the SAS programming language. Andy Field does an outstanding job translating difficult procedures into easy steps to follow. The best resource for anyone conquering SAS for the first time.
Will use as a supplementary book for my work and student
This text is being used in a graduate course in our department. The requirement to be able to access SAS turns out to be prohibitive for our udnergraduates, although the grad students have free access.
The book has some nice ways to explain some of the key themes in one of the least favourite areas within undergraduate level Sports Science
This is a beautiful book. We will not be using SAS, however. Would you consider publishing a similar text using Excel? Thanks.
This book provide detailed examples and most kinds of statistics. Meanwhile, it shows how to incorporate Excel and SPSS into SAS. It is a highly recommended book for quantitative research learning and practice.
