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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Good experience with Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field - turned out to hold true here, too
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.
I really like this book. It is easy to understand and the Jane superbrain iems make it really engaging. I like the use of humour in it as sometimes stats books are so dry. Great publication
It's a great book that extends Andy Field's ingenious way of explaining statistics to a different computing package.
Thid text covers a bit more than the module content and is probably not suitable as a requirement for the module. It is ideal an supplemental reading for this and other modules and I will be recommending for library stock
An exteremely useful book for those novice researchers who are using SAS software for analysis of their data.
I think this is an excellent book - unfortunately the stranglehold that SPSS has on the teaching of stats means that I will only be recommending this as supplementary reading - and as a way of people learning about SAS as an additional set of tools for their analyses
This is a great book. Very well written and easy to read. I will be recommending it for the module next academic year.
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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
Although the author's style is a bit too personal for me, I've found this book as good as the previous SPSS version, from a statistical point of view.
But the SAS aspect is a bit disappointing, as the book relies only on SAS syntax: some extensions using Enterprise Guide and IML Studio would have been useful for my students, as would have been a quick view of some datamining techniques.
