Understanding What Analysis Says (UWAS) is a textbook that evolved from a virtual training carried out during the Coronavirus disease, 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown for over sixty participants that cut across higher institution lecturers and postgraduate students. The participants are from institutions within and outside of Nigeria.

UWAS tries to train participants on how to interpret the analysis outputs of the common statistics used in socio-scientific research studies. The statistics covered include the descriptive statistics such as frequency counts/percentage, mean/standard deviation; charts such as line graph, pie chart, bar chart; inferential statistics such as chi-square, t-test, correlation, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance and regression.

This book, in addition to the presentation of how to interpret the analysis results from these statistics, also presents Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the statistics. These questions throw more light on the grey areas in the course of interpreting the analysis. It consists of five chapters, each chapter on a different module. Each module has a minimum of four and maximum of six sections. Each section presents a stimulus which is fortifie with examples and/or scenarios that illustrate the real situations. There is a sub-section dedicated to FAQs about the subject discussed in the section, and appropriate answers were given.

To make the reading of the book engaging and active studying, there are probing questions termed 'Test Yourself' in each section. This question(s) is posed at the early stage of the section which is meant to wake your interest and sustained it to the end. At the end of the section, you should be able to answer the test yourself questions, if you have not done so at the beginning.

This book covers the common statistics used in educational and other social sciences research studies in the category of descriptive and inferential, parametric and nonparametric as well as charts. Researchers, lecturers and students in various areas where statistics are used to analyse data will find this book a companion.