Presenting Statistical Results Effectively

Robert Andersen is Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy, and Professor of Strategy at the Ivey Business School, Western Univeristy. He is also cross-appointed in the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Statistics and Actuarial Science. His previous appointments include Distinguished Professor of Social Science at the University of Toronto, Senator William McMaster Chair in Political Sociology at McMaster University, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Andersen's research expertise is in social statistics, social stratification, and political economy. Much of his recent research has explored the cross-national relationships between economic conditions, especially income inequality, and a wide array of attitudes and behaviours important for liberal democracy and a successful business environment, including social trust, tolerance, civic participation, support for democracy and attitudes toward public policy. His published research includes Modern Methods for Robust Regression (Sage, 2008), and more than 70 academic papers including articles in the Annual Review of Sociology, American Journal of Political Science, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Politics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Sociological Methodology. Andersen has provided consulting for the United Nations, the European Commission, the Canadian Government and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. Dave Armstrong is the Canada Research Chair in Political Methodology and Associate Professor of Political Science at Western University and is cross-appointed in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences. Professor Armstrong earned a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland in 2009. Prior to arriving at Western, he had a post-doctoral position at Oxford University after which he taught in the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has been a faculty member at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program at the University of Michigan since 2006 and has taught multiple courses at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis at the University of Essex and the Oxford University Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research. His current work focuses on the use of non-parametric models in conventional social scientific inference. His work has been published in such journals as The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, The American Sociological Review, The Annual Review of Political Science, The Journal of Peace Research, The Canadian Journal of Political Science and The R Journal. His most recent book is Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgement with R, with Ryan Bakker, Royce Carroll, Chris Hare, Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal (2nd ed. 2021)

Chapter 1: Some Foundation What is a 'Model'? Statistical Inference Part A: General Principles of Effective Presentation Chapter 2: Best Practices for Graphs and Tables When to use Tables and Graphs Constructing Effective Tables Constructing Clear and Informative Graphs Chapter 3: Methods for Visualizing Distributions Displaying the Distributions of Categorical Variables Displaying Distributions of Quantitative Variables Transformations Chapter 4: Exploring and Describing Relationships Two Categorical Variables Categorical Explanatory Variable and Quantitative Dependent Variable Two quantitative Variables Multivariate Displays Part B: The Linear Model Chapter 5: The Linear Regression Model Ordinary Least Squares Regression Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals Assessing and Comparing Model Fit Relative Importance of Predictors Interpreting and presenting OLS models: Some empirical examples Linear Probability Model Chapter 6: Assessing the Impact and Importance of Multi-category Explanatory Variables Coding Multi-category Explanatory Variables Revisiting Statistical Significance: Multi-category Predictors Relative importance of sets of regressors Graphical Presentation of Additive Effects Chapter 7: Identifying and Handling Problems in Linear Models Nonlinearity Influential Observations Heteroskedasticity Nonnormality Chapter 8: Modelling and Presentation of Curvilinear Effects Curvilinearity in the Linear Model Framework Nonlinear Transformations Polynomial Regression Regression Splines Nonparametric Regression Generalized Additive Models Chapter 9: Interaction Effects in Linear Models Understanding Interaction Effects Interactions Between Two Categorical Variables Interactions Between One Categorical Variable and One Quantitative Variable Interactions Between Two Continuous Variables Interaction Effects: Some Cautions and Recommendations Part C: The Generalized Linear Model and Extensions Chapter 10: Generalized Linear Models Basics of the Generalized Linear Model Maximum Likelihood Estimation Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals Assessing Model Fit Empirical Example: Using Poisson Regression to Predict Counts Understanding Effects of Variables Measuring Variable Importance Model Diagnostics Chapter 11: Categorical Dependent Variables Regression Models for Binary Outcomes Interpreting Effects in Logit and Probit Models Model Fit for Binary Regression Models Diagnostics Specific to Binary Regression Models Extending the Binary Regression Model - Ordered and Multinomial Models Chapter 12: Conclusions and Recommendations Choosing the Right Estimator Research Design and Measurement Issues Evaluating the Model Effective Presentation of Results

Is your quantitative work so screamingly clear that your readers never misunderstand your figures, misread your tables, or get confused by your prose? If so, then don't waste your time with Andersen and Armstrong's thoughtful book about the effective presentation and interpretation of statistical results. -- Gary King