"This book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences by introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model building approach." "Miles and Shevlin begin with the basics and by re-visiting the mean and the standard deviation, with which most readers will already be familiar, show that they can be thought of a least squares model. The book then shows that this least squares model is actually a special case of a regression analysis and can be extended to deal with the first one, and then more than one independent variable."