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A new textbook from statistics royalty that builds on a world-class brand to present core statistical techniques alongside an up-and-coming software created by the authors - JASP.
List of contents
1. Why is my evil lecturer forcing me to learn statistics?
2. The SPINE of statistics
3. The phoenix of statistics
4. The JASP environment
5. Visualizing data
6. The beast of bias
7. Correlation
8. The linear model (regression)
9. Categorical predictors: Comparing two means
10. Moderation and mediation
11. GLM 1: Comparing several independent means
12. GLM 2: Comparing means adjusted for other predictors (analysis of covariance)
13. GLM 3: Factorial designs
14. GLM 4: Repeated-measures designs
15. Non-parametric models
16. Categorical outcomes: chi-square
17. Categorical outcomes: logistic regression
About the author
Andy Field is Professor of Quantitative Methods at 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 including Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (winner of the 2007 British Psychological Society book award), Discovering Statistics Using R, and An 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 the adventr and discovr packages 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).
He′s 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 you′ve ever heard of him it′ll 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.
Prof. dr. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers is a mathematical psychologist and a dedicated Bayesian at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His lab heads the development of the JASP open-source software program for statistical analyses.
Summary
A new textbook from statistics royalty that builds on a world-class brand to present core statistical techniques alongside an up-and-coming software created by the authors – JASP.
