This page contains expanded further reading
sections from the book "Research
methods and statistics."
If there is a book that you particularly like, which isn't here, feel
free to drop me a line and tell me about it. If you are the author or
publisher of a book that you think should be here, then feel free to
send me a copy. If you were to send money that would be even better.
The links labelled "Amazon" take you to the book on amazon.co.uk. You
might find the book for less on one of the comparison sites, such as www.shopsmart.com
or www.easyvalue.com
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General
- Everitt and Wykes
(1999). A dictionary of statistics for psychologists. This
is a nice, accessible book that is specifically aimed at psychologists.
Starts at a simple level, but contains almost everything you might
encounter.
Amazon .
- Coolican (1999). Research methods
and statistics in psychology . One of my favourite
introductory books, Nice and clear, although it seems to be unsure if
it wants to be a degree
level book, or an A level book.
Amazon.
- Field (2000). Introducing statistics with
SPSS. A great book which has extensive coverage, and a pleasantly
lighthearted approach.
Amazon .
- Norman and Streiner (2000). Biostatistics: the
bare essentials. An excellent book for statistics if you are using
a computer package (they focus on SPSS for their examples). Manages to
be
amusing, without being irritating. The book is ridiculously expensive
on
amazon , go to one of the shopping comparison sites and find
it for a quarter of the price.
- Pedhazur and Schmelkin (1991). Measurement,
design and analysis: an integrated approach. One of my
favourite books - it covers everything from the simplest to advanced
techniques. Not to
everyone's taste - the authors are not patient with those who ignore
their
advice.
Amazon.
- Smithson (2000). Statistics with
confidence. A nice book if you want to go a little (but only
a little) beyond the
introductory level
Amazon .
- Tabachnik and Fidell (2000). Using
multivariate statistics. Not really for complete beginners,
but very comprehensive coverage of more advanced statistics.
- Sage QASS series (Quantitative Analysis in the
Social Sciences; the 'Little Green Books'). This isn't a book, but a
whole series of them. They cover difference aspects research and
statistics, for example "Analysis of variance", "Q-sort techniques",
"Applied regression".
This link will take you to the publisher's site.
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