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.
Supplements
Excellent guide to SAS for Psychology students
I chose this book because of the entertaining and highly comprehensive style of writing. This book is a useful guide for the students regarding statistical and methodolgical questions during the research project. All theoretical questions are closely connected to the implementation in SAS to provide assistance in understanding and conducting research.
The course is focusing on SPSS instead of SAS
The book is suitable for both undergraduate and post graduate courses.
Excellent introduction to statistics using the SAS programming language. Andy Field does an outstanding job translating difficult procedures into easy steps to follow. The best resource for anyone conquering SAS for the first time.
Will use as a supplementary book for my work and student
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.
The book has some nice ways to explain some of the key themes in one of the least favourite areas within undergraduate level Sports Science
This is a beautiful book. We will not be using SAS, however. Would you consider publishing a similar text using Excel? Thanks.
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.
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