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An Adventure in Statistics Andy Field

An Adventure in Statistics By Andy Field

An Adventure in Statistics by Andy Field


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A unique blend of novel and textbook from bestselling author Andy Field that provides a complete introduction to statistics - alongside a terrifying probability bridge, zombies and a talking cat.

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An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma by Andy Field

APEX Award 2023 for Publication Excellence: Print Media - Education & Training
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2016
Shortlisted for the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers Award for Innovation in Publishing 2016

Now in its second edition, An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigmaby best-selling author and award-winning teacherAndy Fieldoffers a better way to learn statistics. It combines rock-solid statistics coverage with compelling visual storytelling to address the conceptual difficulties that students learning statistics for the first time often encounter in introductory courses. Students are guided away from rote memorization towards independent, critical thinking and problem solving.

This essential foundation to understanding statistics is woven into the unique action-packed story of Zach, who thinks, processes information and faces challenges to his understanding in the same way as a statistics novice. Illustrated with stunning, graphic novel-style art and featuring Socratic dialogue, the story captivates readers as it introduces them to concepts, eliminating potential statistics anxiety.

No previous statistics knowledge is presumed, and no use of data analysis software is required everything you would expect for an introductory course is covered but with a contemporary twist, arming students with a strong grounding in understanding classical and Bayesian approaches to data analysis.

With its unique combination of story, concepts and terminology, this complete introduction to statistics from bestselling author Andy Field breaks the mould to present a statistical tale like no other.

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About Andy Field

Andy Field isProfessor of Quantitative Methodsat the University of Sussex. He has published widely (100+ research papers, 29 book chapters, and 17 books in various editions) in the areas of child anxiety and psychological methods and statistics. His current research interests focus on barriers to learning mathematics and statistics. He is internationally known as a statistics educator. He has written several widely used statistics textbooks includingDiscovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics(winner of the 2007 British Psychological Society book award),Discovering Statistics Using R, andAn Adventure in Statistics(shortlisted for the British Psychological Society book award, 2017; British Book Design and Production Awards, primary, secondary and tertiary education category, 2016; and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers Award for innovation in publishing, 2016), which teaches statistics through a fictional narrative and uses graphic novel elements. He has also written theadventranddiscovrpackages for the statistics software R that teach statistics and R through interactive tutorials. His uncontrollable enthusiasm for teaching statistics to psychologists has led to teaching awards from the University of Sussex (2001, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), the British Psychological Society (2006) and a prestigious UK National Teaching fellowship (2010). Hes done the usual academic things: had grants, been on editorial boards, done lots of admin/service but he finds it tedious trying to remember this stuff. None of them matter anyway because in the unlikely event that youve ever heard of him itll be as the Stats book guy. In his spare time, he plays the drums very noisily in a heavy metal band, and walks his cocker spaniel, both of which he finds therapeutic.

Table of Contents

Prologue Chapter 1: Why you need science Chapter 2: Reporting research, variables and measurement Chapter 3: Summarizing data Chapter 4: Fitting models (central tendency) Chapter 5: Presenting data Chapter 6: Z-scores Chapter 7: Probability Chapter 8: Inferential statistics: going beyond the data Chapter 9: Robust estimation Chapter 10: Hypothesis testing Chapter 11: Modern approaches to theory testing Chapter 12: Assumptions Chapter 13: Relationships Chapter 14: The general linear model Chapter 15: Comparing two means Chapter 16: Comparing several means Chapter 17: Factorial designs Epilogue: The genial night

Additional information

NPB9781529797145
9781529797145
1529797144
An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma by Andy Field
New
Hardback
Sage Publications Ltd
2022-04-07
664
N/A
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