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Keeping the uniquely humorous and self-deprecating style that has made students across the world fall in love with Andy Field's books, Discovering Statistics Using R takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using R, a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences throughout the world.
The journey begins by explaining basic statistical and research concepts before a guided tour of the R software environment. Next you discover the importance of exploring and graphing data, before moving onto statistical tests that are the foundations of the rest of the book (for example correlation and regression). You will then stride confidently into intermediate level analyses such as ANOVA, before ending your journey with advanced techniques such as MANOVA and multilevel models. Although there is enough theory to help you gain the necessary conceptual understanding of what you're doing, the emphasis is on applying what you learn to playful and real-world examples that should make the experience more fun than you might expect.
Like its sister textbooks, Discovering Statistics Using R is written in an irreverent style and follows the same ground-breaking structure and pedagogical approach. The core material is augmented by a cast of characters to help the reader on their way, together with hundreds of examples, self-assessment tests to consolidate knowledge, and additional website material for those wanting to learn more.
Given this book's accessibility, fun spirit, and use of bizarre real-world research it should be essential for anyone wanting to learn about statistics using the freely-available R software.
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The R version of Andy Field's hugely popular Discovering Statistics Using SPSS takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using the freeware R. Like its sister textbook, Discovering Statistics Using R is written in an irreverent style and follows the same ground-breaking structure and pedagogical approach. The core material is enhanced by a cast of characters to...more
Published April 5th 2012 by Sage Publications Ltd (first published April 4th 2012)
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Jan 01, 2016Mallory rated it really liked it
Shelves: cried-buckets-of-tears, required-to-read
I was a former math-hater-turned-math-poser before I read this book. Have you ever had a textbook that you ENJOYED reading? Nope? That's because you've never read anything by Andy Field. My book took it's sweet time to ship to my house last year (when I took statistics and used the book), so I flipped through my friend's copy in the meantime. I was captivated by it that I checked Amazon about 27 times a day to see if the tracking information had changed. When it FINALLY arrived, my first read thr...more
This is not your average book on stats - this is literature! There are very few books that made me laugh so hard and helped me learn so much.
When I saw Discovering Statistics Using R on my class reading list, I died a little bit inside. It’s not the topic, merely the author. I had horrific flashbacks to Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. Needless to say, I was not looking forward to more of Andy Field’s juvenile ‘humour’. My reaction to this book, was much like my reaction to the SPSS book when it was on my reading list at undergraduate level – the fact it seems to be aimed at teenage boys prevented me from focusing up...more
Jul 15, 2013Malcolm Bastien rated it really liked it
Everything was super clear in the book, but near the end the chapters started getting difficult. I had some trouble understanding bits at the end of the MANOVA chapter, and I had to give up on the section about Exploratory Factor Analysis completely. After that, things just didn't feel as concrete to me. Overall pretty damn good and clear considering how much content there is in the book. I'm glad I choose this one to read.
Aug 02, 2018Mike rated it really liked it
I don't normally like to review books if I've not fully read them, but I'll make an exception here given that it's not the sort of book that is intended to be read from cover to cover. Like thousands of other psychology students, Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using SPSS was the textbook that my undergraduate statistics modules were based around, and I always found it to be very accessible. As such, when I made the recent decision to ditch SPSS and try to teach myself R instead, Field's tex...more
Have you ever loved a textbook, or laughed at every few pages? If you haven't, read this book. (Preferably with a little bit of background in stats.) This book was a life-saver while I was writing my postgrad thesis and needed to code my analysis, charts, and results in R. It's easy to read, and the humour took some edge off the 'toughness' of the material. He and co-authors (Jeremy Miles and Zoe Field) also provided additional 'titbits' that were pitched at varying levels of knowledge: noob, al...more
Feb 05, 2018Amber rated it it was amazing
Although I was not entirely thrilled that I had to read it at first (I decided to take a statistical analysis module that involves using R Commander), it quickly became my bible! For someone that didn't do A Level maths, it was easy to follow, especially when relating the maths to the coding in R! Plus, it was written with a light-hearted tone that took away from the contents daunting nature. Sometimes it made me cringe, but I think that was the intention, to make degree level statistics...fun?
Sep 16, 2017Gallottino rated it it was amazing
Libro strepitoso di statistica sperimentale con l'ausilio del software open source R. Una penna esilarante, dalla teoria centrale del limite alla GLM, all'analisi multivariata di varianza passando per gli studi fattoriali e a tutti i test parametrici e non parametrici. Esempi divertentissimi e accurata disamina di tutti i test statistici a partire dalla regressione multipla, una bibbia irriverente e competentissima per un grande docente. Persino l'assunto di sfericitá e la PCA con tutta l'analisi...more
Why is my evil lecturer forcing me to learn about statistics? This was not only my own thought the first two semesters of university, but also the beginning of this book. This was the first (and most certainly the last) book about statistics that made me laugh multiple times and that not (only) because of my own stupidity. It was worth every cent I spent on it!
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Aug 06, 2014Hussain rated it did not like it
The first few chapters summarizing statistics are great, but then when the book gets to the R environment in chapter 3, things get complicated. I stopped there as I was spending too much time dealing with errors in entering commands. I wondered if it was worth the time and effort to learn R when SPSS is available and makes analyzing much easier. I decided to stick with SPSS.
Jan 01, 2013Hadoola0 rated it it was amazing
By far this is my favorite statistics book for SPSS ( especially when I am not a fan of statistics), easy to comprehend and it is actually step-by-step kinda book. the author got a website where he also posts some solutions and videos of how to preform some of the tests.
If you want to learn statistics and how to apply it using R this is one of the best resources you'll ever find. Andy Field was able to make statistics funny and entertaining
Mar 17, 2016James Conigrave rated it it was amazing
The most entertaining manifestation of statistics ever put into print.
Aug 14, 2014Marian rated it really liked it
Very readable and engaging intro to statistics and R programming. Uses examples from psychology research, but applicable to other fields too.
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Andy Field is Professor of Child Psychopathology at the University of Sussex. He has published over 70 research papers, 27 book chapters, and 17 books mostly on child emotional development and statistics. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology and has been an associate editor and editorial board member for the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychol...more
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