I am happy that I got accepted into one of my top choices, but am getting nervous about doing well. I have done well in my BA and MA program, but am soo nervous about the PhD stats classes and fighting with SPSS. Does anyone know of any good stats books for a review?
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There was a post on stats books links but I can't seem to find it. I took multivariates at my school which is a grad-level class and we used Using Multivariate Statistics by Tabachnick and Fidell. http://www.amazon.com/Using-Multiva...=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242267509&sr=8-6
Great book and fairly easy to read.
Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics by Grimm and Yarnold gives some good conceptual information on multivariate stats.
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Under...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242267509&sr=8-4
Hope this helps!
Great book and fairly easy to read.
Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics by Grimm and Yarnold gives some good conceptual information on multivariate stats.
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Under...=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242267509&sr=8-4
Hope this helps!
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Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using SPSS is great, and a very, very easy read.
I don't know how your program runs, but our stats sequence is two classes... the first is basics, probability theory through one-way ANOVA. The second is univariate ANOVA/ANCOVA of different flavors, correlations, and linear regression of different levels of complexity. If yours is similar, you might not even be using SPSS for the first couple of months. Hell, you might be doing things by hand (or using Excel, which is almost like doing it by hand). Don't stress too much over it now.
Chances are you won't get to the fun, complicated stuff (factor analysis, MANOVA/MANCOVA, logistic regression, ect.) unless you take a specific class on it.
By all means, get a book, do some reading this summer... but don't think you have to memorize the thing before August. It won't be that bad 😀
I don't know how your program runs, but our stats sequence is two classes... the first is basics, probability theory through one-way ANOVA. The second is univariate ANOVA/ANCOVA of different flavors, correlations, and linear regression of different levels of complexity. If yours is similar, you might not even be using SPSS for the first couple of months. Hell, you might be doing things by hand (or using Excel, which is almost like doing it by hand). Don't stress too much over it now.
Chances are you won't get to the fun, complicated stuff (factor analysis, MANOVA/MANCOVA, logistic regression, ect.) unless you take a specific class on it.
By all means, get a book, do some reading this summer... but don't think you have to memorize the thing before August. It won't be that bad 😀
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Let me start by saying that almost everyone is intimidated by stats when they start grad school. Ph.D. programs know this. Their goal is to train a practicing scientist, so don't worry about it. Most programs have a very systematic way of training you in basic statistics. I've found the best way to learn statistics is by doing, so I don't know how much you would get out of reading, and chances are it will eventually be a waste of your time.
That being said, I will offer up that the book Applied Statistics by Rebecca Warner is one of my favs (and I have a lot of stats books, I'm getting an MS in stats as well as my Ph.D. in clin psych). It starts very basic and moves to fairly complex analyses all in one book.
Good luck in grad school!
That being said, I will offer up that the book Applied Statistics by Rebecca Warner is one of my favs (and I have a lot of stats books, I'm getting an MS in stats as well as my Ph.D. in clin psych). It starts very basic and moves to fairly complex analyses all in one book.
Good luck in grad school!
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