Political Analysis: A Guide to Data and Statistics

Statistics are part of our everyday life: from polling and elections to advertising claims, we confront numerical claims all the time.Rather than being swayed by bad arguments and questionable correlations, this book introduces you to the most common and contemporary statistical methods so that you can better understand the world.This is the most accessible guide to using statistics in Politics and IR research.Praised for being intuitive and engaging, this textbook walks you through the most common tools - from crosstabs to correlations; from multiple to logistic regression - in a way that couldn’t be more different than dull number crunching or complicated techniques.Instead, it empowers you to decide the best means to analyse a problem. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition is accompanied by four workbooks that provide both practical and theoretical examples using different statistical software: SPSS, Stata, R, and Python.Simply choose the relevant workbook and learn