Statistics for Sports and Exercise Science: A Practical Approach - Softcover

Newell, John; Aitchison, Tom; Grant, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132042541 ISBN 13: 9780132042543

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Statistics in Sport and Exercise Science assumes no prior knowledge of statistics and uses real-life case studies to introduce the importance of statistics in sport and exercise science. Statistical tests and techniques are described here in a friendly and easy-to-understand manner, giving you the confidence to analyses data and complete your own statistical studies.

 

About this title

Review:

"This is the best statistics text I have come across in 7 years of teaching on undergraduate sport degrees. Students have always struggled to see the application of statistics to their degree ... Statistics for Sports and Exercise Science eliminates this problem," - Dr Mick Wilkinson, Department of Sport Sciences, Northumbria University"

Easily the best book in the area, specific material for sport students."- Dr Rodney Kennedy, School of Sport Studies, University of Ulster

"I really like the Newell book and will definitely be recommending it to the students on my two research methods modules... The information in the book is first class." - Dr Adrian W Midgley, Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Science, University of Hull

"Incredibly easy to read, full of real-life examples, and very much appropriate for Sports Science students." - Dr Kate Reed, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex

From the Back Cover:

Statistics for Sports and Exercise Science: a practical approach

Through a series of carefully chosen case studies, this book will enable you to appreciate the role of statistics in sports and exercise science from designing a study through the formal analysis to the writing of a final report.  The extensive use of case studies serves to help simplify and clarify the mathematical ideas underpinning statistical analyses.  Software guides are available on the book’s website to replicate all analyses in the illustrations and exercises using Minitab and SPSS and the freeware R.

Features of the book include:

• Written specifically for students studying sports and exercise science
• Complete data sets for use with statistical packages available from the website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/newell
• Carefully chosen case studies throughout the book
• Key terms clearly highlighted
• End-of-chapter exercises

The author team consists of a sports scientist and two statisticians who have been analysing data from sports and exercise science for over thirty years. The shared experiences of all three are utilised in this book to display the practical nature of statistics and facilitate the understanding of its usefulness and importance in analysing data from sports and exercise science.

John Newell is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Clinical Research Facility, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Tom Aitchison is a retired Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Glasgow.

Stanley Grant is a retired Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0132042541
• ISBN 13: 9780132042543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440