Developing interactive ebooks and an analysis assistant to teach and apply modern quantitative methods

Whilst a large range of valuable training resources are available to those interested in learning quantitative techniques, few discuss how statistics are conducted in practice by working analysts. Advances in technology, however, have opened up the possibility of using more interactive tools to develop such resources. We have conducted interviews with quantitative researchers from a variety of disciplines, and are collaborating with them to produce interactive eBooks based on a case study each of them have chosen. These are written using our Stat-JR package which can interoperate with a variety of other statistical software, and can thus allow users to explore how a given analysis might be conducted in a range of different packages. The resulting eBooks will form a library of case studies that those newer to the field can use as a learning tool, with the aim of elucidating and demystifying the quantitative research process.