Statistics to Support Research: Why & How to Use Statistics

How to find, evaluate, and write about statistics in your research

Why Use Statistics?

The Research Process

Using Statistics in Your Writing

  • Writing with Statistics The Purdue Online Writing Lab explains how to write with statistics including quick tips, writing descriptive statistics, writing inferential statistics, and using visuals with statistics. 
  • This Statistics handout from The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helps you to use statistics to make your argument as effectively as possible.
  • For a better understanding of why and how to use statistics in your writing, read the chapter on "Arguing" in The Norton Field Guide to Writing, pages 397-417. Copies are on reserve at the Circulation Desk in Columbus Hall and are also available at the Reference Desk in Moeller Hall at the Delaware campus.  

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