Publications

These are some of the SSC's publications dealing with how to use statistics to solve day-to-day problems. They are organised under the following themes:

Writing research protocols

Statistical Guidelines for researchers

A series of short documents covering a series of topics, originally written as part of a contract with the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) as guidance for research and support staff working on DFID Natural Resources Projects. Rewritten and published in 2004 as a book.

Some of the guides have been translated to Spanish and/or French.

Help on data management

The first two guides below were produced by the SSC for the DFID funded Research Into Use (RIU) programme managed by Natural Resources International Limited. The third item is a document containing the training materials for a course on Research Data Management.

Guides on using Excel for statistics

Analysis of Designed Experiments

A complete set of training notes for a course on the analysis of experimental data. The notes were produced in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), part supported by DFID. Earlier versions were used on training courses in Tanzania, Kenya, Benin and Guinea.

Climatic Variability and Climate Change

The following guide has been developed for those wishing to use GenStat for the analysis of climate data. The guide was originally written for version 7 (Genstat Discovery edition) and was later updated for version 11. Both versions are available here together with the datasets used which can be downloaded as a zip file.

Integrating qualitative and quantitative research traditions

An Evaluation of development initiatives

Survey methods

Teaching Statistics

The following publications were papers presented at various conferences. The first 3 are from ICOTS8 (International Conference on Teaching Statistics 2010).

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Last updated: 2 February, 2012