Welcome to the SAGE edge site for Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R, First Edition.

The SAGE edge site for Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R, by Neil J. Salkind and Leslie A. Shaw, offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience.

Neil J. Salkind’s bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics has been helping ease student anxiety around an often intimidating subject since it first published in 2000. Now the bestselling SPSS and Excel versions are joined by a text for use with the R software, Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics Using R. New co-author Leslie A. Shaw carries forward Salkind’s signature humorous, personable, and informative approach as the text guides students in a grounding of statistical basics and R computing, and the application of statistics to research studies. The book covers various basic and advanced statistical procedures, from correlation and graph creation to analysis of variance, regression, non-parametric tests, and more.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge Neil J. Salkind and Leslie A. Shaw for writing an excellent text. Special thanks are also due to Adeline Yeh of Cornell University for developing the ancillaries on this site.