Will G. Hopkins, Professor of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. Not set up like a traditional textbook with specific chapters, this free online statistics resource provides an full index linking to specific terms and concepts within statistics. There is a focus on sports-related examples, but overall this is a great [...]
Free Online Statistics Textbooks
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of data. It is one of those academic disciplines that crosses a wide range of subjects. Most scientific researchers rely upon statistics to study trends, averages and progressions.
Statistics is primarily a math discipline that has become a tool for measuring the activities of numerous other fields of study. There are some that consider statistics to be its own field of study, rather than a branch of mathematics. To my way of thinking, if the prerequisites for taking statistics courses are basic mathematics and algebra, then statistics would fall under the mathematics umbrella.
Rather than embed free statistics textbooks all over Online Degree Discussion, I made the executive decision that even if they are designed for social or physical sciences students, they will be included here under the mathematics textbook section of my site..
List of Free Online Statistics Textbooks
A New View of Statistics
A New View of Statistics
Will G. Hopkins, Professor of Exercise Science, Sport and Recreation, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. Not set up like a traditional textbook with specific chapters, this free online statistics resource provides an full index linking to specific terms and concepts within statistics. There is a focus on sports-related examples, but overall this is a great [...]
Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics
Written by Richard Lowry, Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Vassar College. It can be found on the VassarStats, Website for Statistical Computation along with a number of free online statistical tools, calculators and other psychology-related statistical information.
Dyadic Data Analysis
Dyadic data analysis textbook written by Dr. David A. Kenny, Dr. Deborah A. Kashy, Dr. William L. Cook, and Dr. Jeffry A. Simpson. They explain the problems inherent in analyzing dyadic data and how to analyze that data. If you are working with data that includes the interactions of 2 or more people, this book [...]
Experiment, Design and Statistics in Psychology
Free online statistics in psychology textbook for psychology majors, who have limited math backgrounds, to enable them to design their own experiments and perform their own statistical calculations.
HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook
David Lane of the Rice University Department of Psychology, Statistics and Management has made this hyper text book freely available on his website. Site also has some basic analysis tools, case studies and simulations.
Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models and Applications
In a course designed for Behavioral Sciences students, professor David W. Stockburger seeks to convey an understanding of the “relationship between statistics and the scientific method and how it applies to psychology and the behavioral sciences” and to “be able to calculate and communicate statistical information to others.”
Little Handbook of Statistical Practice
Gerard E. Dallal, Ph.D, Chief, Biostatistics Unit Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. A growing collection of course and lecture notes from Nutrition 209, Statistical Methods for Nutrition Research. The author claims that he has not set out to write a textbook but these materials sure do read like [...]
Probability and Statistics eBook
An actively updated wiki from the UCLA Statistics Online Computational Resource on Probability and Statistics.
Seeing Statistics
An innovative online webbook that allows students to interactively play with charts and numbers to learn statistics. This online text was written by Gary McClelland and published by Duxbury, an imprint of Cengage Learning.