Discovering Statistics Using SAS
- Andy Field - University of Sussex, UK
- Jeremy Miles - RAND Corporation, USA
Hot on the heels of Andy Field's best-selling Discovering Statistics Using SPSS, Third Edition (2009), the author has teamed up with a co-author, Jeremy Miles, to adapt this textbook for SAS® using the most up-to-date commands and programming language available in latest release 9.2.
SAS® is a very powerful and popular package used throughout the world in university education, especially in the Behavioral Sciences, Business, and Economics. As with its sister textbook, Discovering Statistics Using SAS® takes the entry level student from first principles right the way through to advanced level statistical concepts all the while grounding knowledge through the use of SAS®. Its approach is to teach statistical concepts as well as the computational principles, commands and language of the SAS® software package in one textbook, and given this comprehensive coverage this textbook should be enthusiastically adopted on a wide variety of statistics courses.
Following the same award-winning contents structure, accessible writing style and pedagogical approach (including a 'cast of characters' that feature in each chapter) as for its sister textbook, Discovering Statistics Using SAS® will be a hugely popular textbook for SAS® users pursuing courses in statistics who then need to apply their knowledge and skills to tackling research reports, dissertations or theses.
Key Features:
- Starts with introductory statistical theory and methods and finishes with advanced level methods – the book for any research problem, and any level of course use
- Provides features and characters that support the learning process throughout the book, from providing tips on how to enter data in SAS® properly to testing knowledge covered in chapters interactively
- Employs a combination of invented and real published research datasets for students. Found on the Companion Website, along with a host of other materials for lecturers and students
A password-protected Instructor Teaching Site and an open-access Student Study Site are available for this book.
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.
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