Discovering Statistics Using SAS

This is a very good book on Discovering Statistics using SAS. It explains statistical concept very clearly and simply using SAS.

-- Dr Anshuman Sharma * drupal *
This book provide detailed examples and most kinds of statistics. Meanwhile, it shows how to incorporate Excel and SPSS into SAS. It is a highly recommended book for quantitative research learning and practice. -- Dr Chavi Chen * drupal *
discovering statistics using SAS is particularly nice as it does use the same format of the earlier book using SPSS.

it does explain statistics in a more conceptual way, rather than using a mathematical approach which particularly suits my students -- Dr Clarine Van Oel * drupal *
It′s a great book that extends Andy Field′s ingenious way of explaining statistics to a different computing package. -- Dr Daniel Heussen * drupal *
Good experience with Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field - turned out to hold true here, too -- Dr Friedrich Funke * drupal *
A great resource for new students! Fun and friendly; both necessary ingredients to secure student involvement in your course. -- Dr Guillermo Perez Algorta * drupal *
Thank you for the inspection copy of Discovering Statistics Using SAS.

This SAS-version of Andy Field′s book was enjoyable to read and was a good, clear ′gentle introduction′ to SAS. I would recommend this book.

The only reason that I have chosen not to adopt the book is because we are already using the SPSS version of Andy Field′s book and this book is so similar that it does not add much. -- Dr Kathleen Jenks * drupal *
This text is being used in a graduate course in our department. The requirement to be able to access SAS turns out to be prohibitive for our udnergraduates, although the grad students have free access. -- Dr Kelly Harrison * drupal *
Excellent guide to SAS for Psychology students -- Dr Louise Dye * drupal *
The book is suitable for both undergraduate and post graduate courses. -- Dr Madhu Acharyya * drupal *
I found the text too complex for a 200 level statistics course. -- Dr Mark Bowman * drupal *
A useful book. We use SAS only marginally but this book is very good support for what we do. -- Dr Mark Moss * drupal *
It′s a great book. A good balance between theory and practice. It′s so difficult to find didactic manual with SAS codes that can be explained to students in an elementary way. -- Dr Marusya Smokova * drupal *
This is a great book. Very well written and easy to read. I will be recommending it for the module next academic year.
Thanks. -- Dr Maxwell Chipulu * drupal *
An exteremely useful book for those novice researchers who are using SAS software for analysis of their data. -- Dr Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali * drupal *
Thid text covers a bit more than the module content and is probably not suitable as a requirement for the module. It is ideal an supplemental reading for this and other modules and I will be recommending for library stock -- Dr Rosie McNiece * drupal *
I am learning SAS and this is great guide to me and my fellow researchers -- Dr Sanjit Roy * drupal *
This is a well organized instructional book with absolutely comprehensive materials on statistical concepts and practical approaches to using SAS. -- Mr Amadou Barrow * drupal *
SAS is less useful to our students than SPSS -- Mr Dennis Nevels * drupal *
Will use as a supplementary book for my work and student -- Mr Emmanuel Bofah * drupal *
I′m adopting this book as supplemental reading because it has very detailed instruction on the use of specific statistical analysis tools. Specially useful for when students have decided on their research strategy and analytical framework. -- Mr Fabian Armendariz * drupal *
I chose this book because of the entertaining and highly comprehensive style of writing. This book is a useful guide for the students regarding statistical and methodolgical questions during the research project. All theoretical questions are closely connected to the implementation in SAS to provide assistance in understanding and conducting research. -- Mr Jakob Grosse * drupal *
A book that make SAS a user-friendly sotfware. Written in a very funny way, it makes the leaning process very pleasant. -- Mr Jamel Khenfer * drupal *
The book has some nice ways to explain some of the key themes in one of the least favourite areas within undergraduate level Sports Science -- Mr James Johnstone * drupal *
Like the SPSS version, this book is very comprehensive and amusing. Andy′s way of presenting statistical knowledge is so interesting. The book is full with life-time examples in how to do statistical tests that will guide every student in research. -- Mr Mahmoud Ismael * drupal *
This book from Andy Field is nice, but not as great as its SPSS counterpart. Although the basic structure and content are the same (and thus as good as the SPSS version), it is somewhat less explanatory and not as clearly presented with regard to using SAS. Also, some of its charm is lost because of the black-and-white layout. -- Mr Martijn Bours * drupal *
While a great resource for areas like applied statistics that have a background in programming in SAS, does not seem beneficial for psychology students who are more focused on the ends rather than the means. -- Mr Michael Pyle * drupal *
Again this is an excellent book by Andt Feild. Our undergraduate and masters students use SPSS as thier main statistical software package. However, many of the PhD studensts use SAS so this book was purchased for the library as supplemental reading for those who may wish to progress. -- Mr Paul Jepson * drupal *
more of a reference text tan one for undergraduates -- Mr Saul Cohn * drupal *
For now on, we are not using SAS but Stata as the primary statistical software. However, we might consider SAS for next year, since "Discovering Statistics Using SAS" is quite convincing." -- Mr Sylvain Weber * drupal *
Although the author′s style is a bit too personal for me, I′ve found this book as good as the previous SPSS version, from a statistical point of view.
But the SAS aspect is a bit disappointing, as the book relies only on SAS syntax: some extensions using Enterprise Guide and IML Studio would have been useful for my students, as would have been a quick view of some datamining techniques. -- Mr Yves Roy * drupal *
Students prefer to use SPSS and thus prefer the SPSS version of Field′s ′Discovering Statistics Using...′ - great text -- Mrs Jacqueline Burke * drupal *
I really like this book. It is easy to understand and the Jane superbrain iems make it really engaging. I like the use of humour in it as sometimes stats books are so dry. Great publication -- Ms Aideen Gallagher * drupal *
The course is focusing on SPSS instead of SAS -- Ms Suzanne Fleming * drupal *
Looking at the SPSS text instead. -- Pam Clary * drupal *
I think this is an excellent book - unfortunately the stranglehold that SPSS has on the teaching of stats means that I will only be recommending this as supplementary reading - and as a way of people learning about SAS as an additional set of tools for their analyses -- Professor Charles Hulme * drupal *
While we will not adopt this book for the entire class (we will use the spss version of the text), this text is recommended for MS or doctoral students whose project require them to use SAS rather than SPSS. -- Professor James Parrott * drupal *
This is a beautiful book. We will not be using SAS, however. Would you consider publishing a similar text using Excel? Thanks. -- Professor Jeanne Horst * drupal *
meet the purposes of the course -- Professor Leanne Lai * drupal *
SAS was more complicated for students to manage. Looking into using SPSS. More faculty members are using SPSS, therefore students will have greater access to SPSS support. -- Professor Lynn Schmidt * drupal *
Field′s style is popular with students, and we have them use JMP. -- Professor Michael Donahue * drupal *
SAS licensing is too expensive in Malaysia. -- Professor Michael Menke * drupal *
Excellent introduction to statistics using the SAS programming language. Andy Field does an outstanding job translating difficult procedures into easy steps to follow. The best resource for anyone conquering SAS for the first time. -- Professor Oliver Wendt * drupal *