Description
This is a review of the book "Discovering Statistics Using SAS" by Jeremy Miles and Andy Field. The book is designed for students who are new to statistics and want to learn how to use the SAS software package. The book starts with basic concepts and moves on to more advanced topics. The book is comprehensive and should be adopted on a wide variety of statistics courses.
Hot on the heels of Andy Field's best-selling
Discovering Statistics Using SPSS, Third Edition (2009), the author has teamed up with a co-author, Jeremy Miles, to adapt this textbook for SAS using the most up-to-date commands and programming language available in latest release 9.2. As with its sister textbook,
Discovering Statistics Using SAS takes the entry level student from first principles right the way through to advanced level statistical concepts all the while grounding knowledge through the use of SAS. Its approach is to teach statistical concepts as well as the computational principles, commands and language of the SAS software package in one textbook, and given this comprehensive coverage this textbook should be enthusiastically adopted on a wide variety of statistics courses.