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.
This is a very good book on Discovering Statistics using SAS. It explains statistical concept very clearly and simply using SAS.
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.
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
It's a great book that extends Andy Field's ingenious way of explaining statistics to a different computing package.
Good experience with Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field - turned out to hold true here, too
A great resource for new students! Fun and friendly; both necessary ingredients to secure student involvement in your course.
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.
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.
Excellent guide to SAS for Psychology students
The book is suitable for both undergraduate and post graduate courses.
