Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics

About Andy Field

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). Hes 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 youve ever heard of him itll 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.