Overview
Taking you on a voyage of discovery through R and RStudio, this completely updated second edition combines real-world examples and humour with a hands-on 'how to' approach that brings statistics and programming to life. In his characteristic irreverent and engaging style, Andy Field takes a fun and flexible yet rigorous approach to doing statistics in a book that: Builds statistical understanding at an accessible pace, giving you the confidence to develop your statistics and programming knowledge Encourages self-testing and reflection so you can practice your new skills Offers support and resources for whatever your learning style and wherever you are on your journey via a cast of colourful characters With an exciting new look and new characters to meet, this is the go-to text for anyone in the social and behavioural sciences who wants to learn about statistics in R and R Studio.
Full Product Details
Author: Andy Field
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN: 9781526461360
ISBN 10: 1526461366
Pages: 1200
Publication Date: 11 April 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Andy Field is Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Sussex. He has published widely (100+ research papers, 29 book chapters, and 17 books in various editions) in the areas of child anxiety and psychological methods and statistics. His current research interests focus on barriers to learning mathematics and statistics. He is internationally known as a statistics educator. He has written several widely used statistics textbooks including Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (winner of the 2007 British Psychological Society book award), Discovering Statistics Using R, and An Adventure in Statistics (shortlisted for the British Psychological Society book award, 2017; British Book Design and Production Awards, primary, secondary and tertiary education category, 2016; and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers Award for innovation in publishing, 2016), which teaches statistics through a fictional narrative and uses graphic novel elements. He has also written the adventr and discovr packages for the statistics software R that teach statistics and R through interactive tutorials. His uncontrollable enthusiasm for teaching statistics to psychologists has led to teaching awards from the University of Sussex (2001, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), the British Psychological Society (2006) and a prestigious UK National Teaching fellowship (2010). He′s done the usual academic things: had grants, been on editorial boards, done lots of admin/service but he finds it tedious trying to remember this stuff. None of them matter anyway because in the unlikely event that you′ve ever heard of him it′ll be as the ′Stats book guy′. In his spare time, he plays the drums very noisily in a heavy metal band, and walks his cocker spaniel, both of which he finds therapeutic.
