Author: Laura

Regression

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There seams to be a high demand for understanding Regression at the moment. Here are a few suggested resources  i’d recommend you refer to to get you on your way:

Discovering Statistics using SPSS -by Andy Field

Statistics without maths for psychology – by Christine Dancey & John Reidy

If these specific books are not checked in, have a look on the shelves around them, there will be many similarly useful books there. (Don’t be put off if it’s subject specific such as the Dancy & Reidy book)

Many online videos….

Multiple Regression Analysis

The Joy of Statistics

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To those who don’t know of him, I’d like to quickly introduce you to Hans Rosling, Professor of Global Health. Hans has a mission to show that statistics can be fun. Although I’m already sold on this concept I am well away that the majority are not!

As part of his mission he has co-founded and is chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. The Gapminder Foundation has set out its aims to:

“…promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.”

The video below is a snippet of his work and introduction to Trendalyzer; software developed by the Gapfinder Foundation that converts international statistics into interactive graphs.

 

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Kahn Academy – Set to put me out of a job!

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I have recently discovered this wonderful resource of the  Kahn Academy. If you’ve been into see me in that last few weeks you have probably heard me ranting about it already but i’m going to rant some more on here anyway!

Salman Kahn started out by making a few algebra videos for his cousins and now has this amazing and free (which is always music to ones ears!) resource of over 2500 videos, practice examples and assesments covering many diciplines from Pure Maths and Physics to Finance, Health Care, Chemistry…you name it!

In each nicely presented 10 minute video he manages to clearly explained each concept. The tutorials are very easy to access straight form home page. You can even log in to keep track of what tutorials you’ve watched and gain points and badges for doing so. Below is an example video for you, all about Standard Deviation, a concept that I get asked about quite a lot!