In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social
data, Stephen Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to
ensure students have basic statistical literacy.
Understanding why we have to learn statistics and seeing the links
between the numbers and real life is a crucial starting point. Using
engaging, friendly, approachable language this book will demystify
numbers from the outset, explaining exactly how they can be used as
tools to understand the relationships between variables.
This text assumes no previous mathematical or statistical knowledge,
taking the reader through each basic technique with step-by-step advice,
worked examples, and exercises. Using non-inferential techniques,
students learn the foundations that underpin all statistical analysis
and will learn from the ground up how to produce theoretically and
empirically informed statistical results.