Customer Reviews
Excellent book - By: Graham Wright, 10 Jul 2008 
This has everything you need to get your head round research methods. One tiny criticism - it good do with a bit of colour to cheer the pages up.
A very good introductory textbook - By: Electric Angel, 07 Nov 2007 
As a first year psychology student I found this an invaluable resource to simplify understanding of statistical tests & methods which other textbooks over-complicated, & generally did not explain very well.
Ironically, it simplifies more complex material rather nicely but misses out some key points on some of the simpler statistical analyses, such as measures of central tendency.
The most useful part of the textbook is telling users how to perform the tests & analyses talked aboutin the book into SPSS, which will aid any psychology student no end.
Very pleased - By: Darren Priest, 30 Jan 2007 This book just arrived & it is as good as other reviews say. I've dreaded this assignment, but the book has changed my mind. Extremely accessible & fun, takes the dread away.
Research methods and statistics in psychology - By: Natalie, 19 Oct 2003 When this arrived I was lost on my first psychology report, the easy to follow instructions helped me through. I will continue to let it guide me & recommend it to all other psychology students.
Extensive, but a little annoying at times - By: , 18 Jan 2003 This is a pretty good introduction to statistics, especially for complete beginners. I had to buy it for a course, & at first wasn't too impressed with it, primarily because of the writing style. The author keeps the tone very light & says many jokes & funny things, which never bothered me. What did irritate me was that he also has a tendency to really "dumb-down" everything, to the point where you feel like it has been written for younger students, rather than university students (which I gather it sort of was).
However, I figured out after working my way through the course that the text is actually pretty good: it covers several statistical tests that other texts skip. Tests detailed include: binomial sign test, Chi-square, Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon rank sum, t test, Pearson's correlation, Spearman's rho, regression (including multiple), Kruskal-Wallis, Jonkheere trend, Friedman, Page trend, ANOVA (one-way, two-way, more-than-two-way, unrelated & related), MANOVA, ANCOVA. It also covers the design of experimentsin detail. And the author really does make an effort to explain everything fully, for readers who have neither a statistical background nor even a strong maths background. It serves as a really good reference, even if reading it is a bit painful.
In short, I doubt this is the best statistics book out there, but it is the best statistics reference book I've seen yet. So I would recommend it if you are starting from scratch. But if you are comfortable with maths or even basic statistics, I wouldn't bother this book, as I'm sure you'll find it as irritating to read as I did.
