Applying Regression and Correlation: A Guide for Students and Researchers (Paperback)

I found the book easy to read, progressed logically and was well supported by diagrams and charts. I also found the explanations about the SPSS computer print-outs invaluable. Perhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling that there is a conspiracy out there. The people at SPSS produce a statistical package that will do just about anything, but you need to be a rocket scientist to follow the manuals that are provided with it or to understand the print out for the test. Then here comes a book that can explain it so well you wonder why you didn’t understand it before, why couldn’t the chaps at SPSS get it right in the first place, surely they know who uses their program and they are not all statistics experts or do they get a cut from all the authors that gain employment writing books telling us how to use the program and understand it.

Ok, so rant aside what do I think? I’ve read lots of books in this area trying to get my head around this topic. I wish I hadn’t bothered; this is the only book that I needed to have read, it explained everything. As Ron Weasley said in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, although I’m not too sure he was talking about this book, its “Bloody Brilliant!”