Data Analysis

Data Analysis: An Introduction (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) Paperback – January 17, 1995

Author: Visit Amazon's Michael S. Lewis-Beck Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0803957726 | Format: PDF, EPUB

• Description
• Book Details
• Table of Contents
• Reviews

Data Analysis: An Introduction – January 17, 1995
Direct download links available Data Analysis: An Introduction – January 17, 1995 for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link

About the Author

Professor Emeritus Political Science
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professo

Direct download links available for Data Analysis: An Introduction – January 17, 1995

• Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (Book 103)
• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 1 edition (January 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803957726
• ISBN-13: 978-0803957725
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > Medical Books > Basic Sciences > Biostatistics

In 1980, Michael Lewis-Beck published Applied Regression: An Introduction, a remarkably succinct, informative, and above all accessible introduction to regression analysis. I used it selectively as ancillary reading in courses I taught in basic statistics, quantitative research methods, and multiple regression. Students loved it. Finally, a statistics text they could use to help them with material they didn't understand in class or that was not clearly explained in their other readings!

Unbeknownst to me, the same author later published another Sage paperback titled Data Analysis: An Introduction. I became aware of this 1995 text only recently, and, after reading it, I realized that the last fifteen of the twenty-three years I taught basic statisitcs before retiring in 2010 would have been much easier for me and much more useful for beginning students if I had learned of the book when it first appeared.

As with Lewis-Beck's Applied Regression text, Data Analysis is a tribute to the author's ability to write both succinctly and accessibly about counter-intuitive material that students commonly dread. No reason for dread here, however, because once again Lewis-Beck has written a text that is really useful for beginners who want to use it as supplementary reading for a course or -- wonder of wonders! -- a self-teaching tool. I had long been convinced that the latter objective, producing a reasonably thorough introduction to basic statistics that would serve the interests of those who wanted to teach themselves but who lacked a good deal of mathematical aptitude, was something that would never be written. Lewis-Beck, however, proved me wrong, and he did it in less than eighty pages.

Data Analysis: An Introduction – January 17, 1995 Download

Please Wait...