The only statistics textbook you'll ever need just got even better!

Students and practitioners of social science often look at mathematics and its allies with suspicion. This book attempts at moderating such a feeling in an interactive and humorous way. The time-tested approach and content serve students of undergraduate and postgraduate levels. With the help of real research examples, the book will take students as well as teachers on a wonderful journey covering both basic principles and advanced concepts and applications of statistics.


This book can become your best friend if you want to understand and use statistics to conduct data analysis in the best possible way. Grab it and leave those anxious moments of overload of mind-boggling data behind!

Key Features:

The 4th edition comes with:

• A balanced blend of theory and practice of statistics

• Updated versions of IBM SPSS Statistics (including version 21)

• SPSS tips and tricks and self-test questions

• Engaging diagrammatic summary of key steps learnt in each chapter

• Bootstrapping procedures wherever relevant

• New material on mediation and moderation

• Data files on companion website