At this point, The Graduate Student’s Guide to Statistics is at the 41% completion mark. To make this book more useful to you and to optimize my writing effort, I need your feedback!
Here is how it will work: When you purchase the book from Leanpub, make sure I can see your e-mail address from Leanpub. Then, let me know what you need! If I can help you by writing up a section for the book, then you will have most likely helped many more people with the same issues.
At this point, The Graduate Student’s Guide to Statistics is at about the 40% completion mark. I added a chapter on sample size considerations, and have made some minor edits to other sections of the book. It looks to me like it will be useful to have a set of chapters that cover how to write up the most common statistical methods. There are already stub chapters on ANOVA and regression.
Moving material from the book to the blog turns out to be a little harder than a simple copy and paste! So, I have been settling for moving blocks of text, primarily. That is going to leave out tables, figures, examples, and any little vignettes.
At this point, The Graduate Student’s Guide to Statistics is at about the 31% completion mark. The primary structure of the book is laid out, and perhaps a third of the chapters have useful content. For the next little while, I’ll be posting excerpts from the book in development.
At some point, it will probably make sense to start offering the book for sale, even in an unfinished state. That should produce several good results:
Right now, I am thinking that the 50% mark would probably be a good place to start that process. In the meantime, using this blog as a platform should also help accomplish these goals!
The Graduate Student’s Guide to Statistics is taking shape! It has already begun as an electronic copy published on Leanpub.
This is going to be a guide on how to manage the statistical analysis for your thesis or dissertation from top to bottom.