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.
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This is a very good book on Discovering Statistics using SAS. It explains statistical concept very clearly and simply using SAS.
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.
discovering statistics using SAS is particularly nice as it does use the same format of the earlier book using SPSS.
it does explain statistics in a more conceptual way, rather than using a mathematical approach which particularly suits my students
It's a great book that extends Andy Field's ingenious way of explaining statistics to a different computing package.
Good experience with Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field - turned out to hold true here, too
A great resource for new students! Fun and friendly; both necessary ingredients to secure student involvement in your course.
Thank you for the inspection copy of Discovering Statistics Using SAS.
This SAS-version of Andy Field's book was enjoyable to read and was a good, clear 'gentle introduction' to SAS. I would recommend this book.
The only reason that I have chosen not to adopt the book is because we are already using the SPSS version of Andy Field's book and this book is so similar that it does not add much.
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.
Excellent guide to SAS for Psychology students
The book is suitable for both undergraduate and post graduate courses.
