Interacting with Statistics

Book Information

Full Description:

Interacting with Statistics is an easy-to-use and comprehensive guide exploring not only the history and origins of statistics, but also how to apply statistics to everyday research processes, and includes a section on academic report writing and referencing. Main areas covered include discussions of the methodologies, disciplines, movements and theories associated with statistical research, describing numerical data, answering research questions using statistics and inferential statistics. The book includes many worked examples, as well as an interactive CD to help readers apply the theory. There is also a comprehensive section on report writing and referencing in academic contexts.

Table of Contents:

1: The Research Process

2: Describing Numerical Data

3: Answering the Research Question Using Statistics

4: Inferential Statistics (Procedures) for Correlations and Two Group Differences

5: Inferential Statistics (Procedures) for Three and More Group Differences

6: Report Writing

Appendices

Plate 1

References

Index

Companion CD

Author Information:

Mark Taylor has an extensive background in data analysis/research methods, including an M.Sc. in Research Methods in the Social Sciences, a post-graduate diploma in Applied Research Methods, several years’ experience of teaching research methods/data analysis at university level, and he also helped to design and administer the performance indicator system for Essex Police. He has worked and studied at a number of higher education institutions in the UK and the United States, including traditional universities, such as Lancaster and Cambridge, new universities, such as South Bank, Thames Valley and Middlesex, the University of Colorado, and several years’ as a residential schools’ tutor at the Open University.
As well as the above mentioned Masters degree and post-graduate diploma, he has degrees in Psychology (Lancaster and Colorado) and Criminology (University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology), as well as a B/Tec National Diploma in Business and Finance (with distinction), and a recognised (City and Guilds) teaching qualification.

The Interactive CD Rom, which accompanies this text, was also designed and produced by him at the computer animation studio which he established and now runs, as part of his on-going commitment to education and e-learning.