Statistics for Sports and Exercise Science

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 books 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.