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Dear Isaac, One of my core areas of expertise is quantitative methods and I have a background in computational social science and design. However, I have never taught statistics to designers. I think for the basics, any good undergraduate statistics textbook will do. What needs to be done is to combine this text book with a statistical package such as SPSS. Many books today are written specifically for a statistical package with examples and supplementary material. And if there is a need it can be further supplemented with design specific examples. But statistics is statistics, and I think math and stats need to be better integrated into design education. For advanced methods however, it is a different world. SPSS is, more often than not, not enough and one should invest in a better package such as Stata, R or SAS (of course there are many other good packages and programming languages). UCLA's IDRE website is a good start with many hands on examples: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/ https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/sas/ https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/ But many advanced methods require some knowledge in calculus and matrix algebra, and without that it might be hard to teach them. This is a huge topic and I don't have a lot of time to write more right now, but I will be more than happy chat on or off list again. Yours, ali On 24 June 2017 at 10:21, Isaac Mathew <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > hi > > does anyone know of any reliable resources to teach statistics to designers > or architects? core statistics seem daunting to introduce. there is also > its applicability how statistics can be useful in design research? > > for research methodologies, social sciences are taken as benchmarks. can, > therefore, books on statistics for social sciences be considered sufficient > or is there some directed design specific readings or references available? > > > mostly a build off from the ongoing research methods discussion, is there > any work done on what kind of statistical frames can be applied during > design research? > > thanks and regards > isaac mathew > > *machimach.com <http://machimach.com/> | mumbaiopendata.org > <http://mumbaiopendata.org> | museumofdesign.in <http://museumofdesign.in > >* > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------