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April 30, 2005 0761944524 978-0761944522 2nd
Get the Statistics Book That's Sweeping the Nation!

Appropriate for All Levels--Undergraduate to Doctorate Programs in Every Discipline!


This new edition of Field's bestselling textbook provides students of statistical methods with everything they need to understand, use and report statistics - at every level. Written in Andy Field's vivid and entertaining style, and furnished with playful examples from everyday student life (among other places), the book forms an accessible gateway into the often intimidating world of statistics and a unique opportunity for students to ground their knowledge of statistics through the use of SPSS. The text is fully compliant with the latest release of SPSS (version 13).

Key updates in Second Edition:
 
- More coverage with completely new material on non-parametric statistics, loglinear analysis, effect sizes and how to report statistical analysis

- Even more student-friendly features, including a glossary of key statistical terms and exercises at the end of chapters for students to work through, with datasets and answers to chapter exercises on the accompanying CD-ROM

- A larger and more easy-to-reference format: notation in each section identifies the intended level of study while the new 2-color text design enhances the features in the book and, together with the larger format, provides extra clarity throughout

- A companion website is available at www.sagepub.co.uk/field, containing resources for both students and instructors: a testbank of MCQs for students to test their own knowledge; online glossary in flash card format; multiple choice questions and answers to use for class assessment – available on restricted access basis to instructors via entry password; and PowerPoint Slides of all formatted artwork in the textbook for instructors to include in their own lecture slides.


Andy Field is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The University of Sussex, U.K. where his success in making statistics accessible was recognized with a teaching award in 2001.

"The Second Edition of Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using SPSS is an excellent book and a valuable addition to the teaching of statistics in the behavioral sciences. The title of the book accurately reflects the approach taken. This is not simply a primer on how to use SPSS, but is a very good statistics text using SPSS as a vehicle for illustrating and expanding on the statistical content of the book. At the same time it also serves as a manual for SPSS, and has taught me things that I had not known about the software. I find this flexible approach to the blending of content and software to be an effective way of teaching the material. It is impossible to review this book without commenting on Andy's particular style. I enjoyed it immensely and think that it would appeal to both students and their instructors. It is refreshing to see someone who doesn't take himself too seriously."
-- David C Howell, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

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"Field makes concerted efforts to provide statistical tools in a very lighthearted fashion by throwing in humor, with great success...  Very useful, valuable, and interesting.  Highly recommended." (D.V. Chopra Choice Magazine )

"Aimed at a wide student audience, the objectives are to explain statistics theory and practice in a clear, engaging, user-friendly way, and the book does this well. For the purist, some of the phrasing might be loose and the theory light, but the book works well as an introductory text for its intended audience." (Andrew Millard, Research Officer of Greater Glasgo NHS )

"This text is notable for the breadth of statistics covered and for seamless meshing this content with SPSS." (Eileen Gigliotti )

About the Author

Andy Field is Professor of Child Psychopathology at The University of Sussex. He adores cats, listens to and plays loud music and enjoys teaching statistics. His ability to make statistics accessible and fun has been recognised with teaching awards from the University of Sussex (2001), the British Psychological Society (2007) and in 2010 he was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 2nd edition (April 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0761944524
  • ISBN-13: 978-0761944522
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me get A+'s in grad school!!!!, May 3, 2006
This review is from: Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods S.) (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is a lifesaver and the bonus is that it's actually enjoyable to read. Unlike most statistics authors, Andy Field seems human AND he can write clearly! I was lost in a graduate school statistics course for most of a year, with one of those professors who can't teach at all and who requires you to read one of those stats textbooks that is just a bunch of numbers on every page (probably written by one of those people who is smart in math but flunked English).

I am hopeless with computers and terrible in math. Our SPSS assignments in my grad course were killing me.
I tried hiring a tutor and HE got things wrong. Finally it occurred to me to do a search on Amazon, by customer review, and that's how I found Andy Field's book. Immediately, I read the chapter on the topic for the assignment I was working on. Wow! Crystal clear instructions on each and every step of the analysis. This book tells you exactly what keys to press on your computer and uses pictures from the computer screen to show you exactly what to do. You just read and follow along. And THEN...THEN!...the beauty of it...it shows you pictures of the printout and explains what everything means. I could cry from happiness. Before Fields' book it would take me a couple days of struggling, crying and swearing to finish one simple SPSS assignment. With Fields' book, it took me less than half an hour. AND...drum roll...I got my first A+ in the course.

Dear Andy, if you're reading this, could you please please write similar books for more advanced stats topics, and could you write similar books for the SAS program?

Now I use Amazon.com searches organized by customer reviews, to look up any and all books I need. With great results
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent but not flawless,, January 3, 2007
This review is from: Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods S.) (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
this 2nd edition is a major improvement of the authors first effort. it is well written, sprinkled with humor, and fairly comprehensive. it would have been nice if some items such as ROC curves and interrupted time series analysis had been included, but otherwise a very worthy effort indeed. my bias would have been to be a bit more comprehensive and to have lost the equations to save on space. considering that most other stats books are completely besotted with equations and statistical jargon that makes them unreadable, this does deserve 5 stars. in general, most statisticians who write books forget who their audience is .. they are not writing for each other .. they are writing for people in the real world who don't care about the equations .. they need to identify meaningful associations and results. In any case, this book works and i highly recommend it to anyone who is starting to use SPSS. although before they tackle this, i would strongly urge any novice to statistics to take a look at "PDQ Statistics" by Norman and Strier. that book is just spectacular .. short, funny, and unbelievably informative, especially for anyone working in the life sciences.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One of the best stats books you can buy..., August 6, 2006
This review is from: Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods S.) (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I've read the other reviews and I generally agree: This is a well written stats book, especially if you are trying to learn the underlying theories rather than just randomly banging around on a keyboard.

However, don't expect this book to be a particularly good choice if you need to do anything too elaborate. Even though this book is 770+ pages long, Field doesn't address realistic scenarios. For example, even though he devotes about 210 pages to all sorts of ANOVA, there is no mention of repeated measures ANCOVA, which is not that unusual. Another example is that while he devotes a whole chapter to exploratory factor analysis, he only briefly mentions confirmatory factor analysis, which is the preferred method in most cases. In some places, he seems to suggest that something is difficult (e.g., contrasts in repeated measures ANOVA) and then offers only weak examples of what to do about it with no mention of how to report what you've done. In fact, he offers very few examples of how to report results, and in some cases, his running examples are nonsignificant so his reporting examples stop short.

All together, this is a good stats theory book with an intro to SPSS, but it's not the kind of book that is going to get you through many real-world analyses. I would recommend this book to undergraduate and graduate students, but folks hoping to survive the peer-review process should probably supplement this book with others. I think Field would be better off dividing the book into smaller works (e.g., devote one whole text to analysis of variance) and spending more time on each topic, rather than expanding on this edition.
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