Ian Diamond

Julie Jefferies

With an emphasis on description, examples, graphs and displays rather than statistical formulae, this book is the ideal introductory guide for students across the social sciences. It shows how all students can understand the basic ideas of statistics at a level appropriate with being a good social scientist. The authors explain the right ways to present data, how to describe a set of data using summary statistics and how to infer what is going on in a population when all you have to go on is the sample. The book uses small data sets to help students understand the basic principles, and no mathematics or statistical background is assumed.

An Introduction for Social Scientists

Beginning Statistics

Liam Foster

In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. Chapters address the following questions: why bother learning statistics in the first place and are they relevant to real life? how do I make sensible tables and informative graphs? what are descriptive and inferential statistics and how are they used? what are regression and correlation anyway?

Julie Jefferies

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