Welcome to Stats Made Easy using Jamovi
'The numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning'
Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise
This webpage aims to teach you the basic statistical concepts and quantitative data analysis tools that will allow you to make sense of large quantitative datasets.
We have simplified the learning material wherever possible, and you will not be required to learn any maths or work through complicated equations. After all, the computer does these calculations for you. Understanding the basic concepts and what all the different tests do, is really important.
This website will use a software called Jamovi to teach you data analysis skills. This is a relatively simple and easy program to use. It is also open-source, so you can download it for free here. In the future, we hope to add learning materials for Python and R.
This website provides learning materials and guides and will link to other openly available resources where necessary.
Course Outline
The Basics
(University of Lincoln Courses: Applying Research, Researching in Social and Political Sciences, Researching in Social and Political Sciences for Criminology 1 & 2)Tutorial 1: Understand your data
Tutorial 2: Descriptive Statistics
Tutorial 3: Basic Correlations and Hypothesis Testing
Inferential Statistics
(University of Lincoln Courses: Researching in Social and Political Sciences, Researching in Social and Political Sciences for Criminology 1 & 2)Tutorial 4: Testing for Difference
Tutorial 5: Reducing your data
Tutorial 6: Linear Regression
Tutorial 7: Logistic Regression
Tutorial 8: Multi-level Analysis (TBC)
Each tutorial will introduce you to the relevant key concepts and ideas using videos and step-by-step guides. There will be links to supplementary reading and other relevant learning materials.
Each tutorials sub-pages will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to set up and/or run a test in Jamovi. These guides will be supplemented by videos. Where possible we will use examples and provide a sample hypothesis.
Suggested Readings
Easy: Rowntree, Derek (2018) Statistic without Tears. Penguin Books: London
Easy: Davis, Cole (2019) Statistical Testing with Jamovi and JASP Open Source Software. Vor Press Norwich.
Moderate: Frost, Jim (2019) Hypothesis testing: An intuitive guide for making data-driven decisions. StatsbyJim
Moderate: Frost, Jim (2019) Regression Analysis: An intuitive guide for using and interpreting Linear Models. StatsbyJim
Moderate: Navarro, D & Foxcroft, D (2019) Learning Statistics with Jamovi: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners. Online: Version 0.7
Useful Dataset
Skoczylis, Joshua (2021) "Extremism, Life Experiences and the Internet", Harvard Dataverse, Version 3.
UK Data Service(2022) "Crime Survey of England and Wales 2013-14: Teaching Dataset"
UK Data Service (2022) "British Social Attitudes Survey, 2017, Environment and Politics: Open Access Teaching Dataset"
Questions?
If you have any questions about the materials please email Joshua Skoczylis and we will add additional information either to the material or add a blog post on the topic.