Helen Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and IR at the University of Nottingham. She is passionate about teaching research methods and applied statistics to reluctant undergraduates. Her innovations in making quantitative research more accessible won the Political Studies Association Innovation in Teaching Politics Award in 2014.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Approaches to the social worldChapter 3: Getting started with SPSSChapter 4: Describing Categorical DataChapter 5: Visualizing categorical dataChapter 6: Inference with categorical dataChapter 7: Describing continuous dataChapter 8: Visualizing continuous dataChapter 9: Comparing group meansChapter 10: Inference with continuous dataChapter 11: Writing about dataAppendix: Activity answers

Dr Williams’ book is an excellent and scary-free introduction to statistics. Using engaging examples from politics and international relations help to illustrate difficult, abstract concepts, making learning statistics fun and approachable. A must-read for all politics undergraduate students! Anja Neundorf, Professor of Politics and Research Methods, University of Glasgow.

Helen Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and IR at the University of Nottingham. She is passionate about teaching research methods and applied statistics to reluctant undergraduates. Her innovations in making quantitative research more accessible won the Political Studies Association Innovation in Teaching Politics Award in 2014.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Approaches to the social worldChapter 3: Getting started with SPSSChapter 4: Describing Categorical DataChapter 5: Visualizing categorical dataChapter 6: Inference with categorical dataChapter 7: Describing continuous dataChapter 8: Visualizing continuous dataChapter 9: Comparing group meansChapter 10: Inference with continuous dataChapter 11: Writing about dataAppendix: Activity answers

Dr Williams’ book is an excellent and scary-free introduction to statistics. Using engaging examples from politics and international relations help to illustrate difficult, abstract concepts, making learning statistics fun and approachable. A must-read for all politics undergraduate students! Anja Neundorf, Professor of Politics and Research Methods, University of Glasgow.

Helen Williams is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and IR at the University of Nottingham. She is passionate about teaching research methods and applied statistics to reluctant undergraduates. Her innovations in making quantitative research more accessible won the Political Studies Association Innovation in Teaching Politics Award in 2014.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Approaches to the social worldChapter 3: Getting started with SPSSChapter 4: Describing Categorical DataChapter 5: Visualizing categorical dataChapter 6: Inference with categorical dataChapter 7: Describing continuous dataChapter 8: Visualizing continuous dataChapter 9: Comparing group meansChapter 10: Inference with continuous dataChapter 11: Writing about dataAppendix: Activity answers

Dr Williams’ book is an excellent and scary-free introduction to statistics. Using engaging examples from politics and international relations help to illustrate difficult, abstract concepts, making learning statistics fun and approachable. A must-read for all politics undergraduate students! Anja Neundorf, Professor of Politics and Research Methods, University of Glasgow.