Product Description

Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16131 in Books
• Published on: 1983-01-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Simple Statistics lives up to its name
It's not easy to find a book on statistics that makes sense and doesn't intimidate the reader. This book lives up to its title and demystifies the kind of statistics that can give you nighmares. Francis Clegg has been making sense for a long time now as the date of this edition illustrates. In my opinion, it is still the best that is around.

This is a very practical guide to how numbers work. Each chapter is clear and logical. There are exercises throughout so that you can check how you are doing. Thankfully, all the answers are in the back!

In a slim edition, she covers some essentials of both descriptive and inferential statistics. If those terms are unfamiliar to you now, the book will quickly have you up to speed. The style is straight forwards and there is a nice sense of humour in the many cartoons that brighted up the pages. Let's face it, any book that illustrates statistics with cartoons of teddy bears has got to be a good book!

A gorgeous little book!
This book sets out to explain what statistics can do for you, how it can do it, and how and why you choose between statistical tests. It's about making it meaningful rather than about getting you to do calculations - to the extent that the calculations themselves are relegated to appendixes, so that you look them up as, if and when you need them.

My experience has been that nothing is harder to understand that something you don't see the point of in the first place. And most stats books seem to come from where the last person to teach me stats came from - anyone who can't do the whole thing in two minutes is thick to the point of being, as the noted intellectual, Donald Rumsfelt, would say, "a bad person".

To repeat the point - really this book is much more about helping people see why it's worthwhile to use stats, than it is about "doing sums" (though they are there as well).

Perfect for those who are terrified of stats
This book is so easy to read, the use of cartoons helps relax those with a terror of maths and is particularly useful for those studying a research methods module in 1st year psychology. An essential text for clarifying anything that goes over your head during lectures, and a great revision tool.