Library Resources for Statistics
We provide access to content such as online books, journals and image collections that can be used to lower or remove student textbook costs for students. To learn more, see the following:
Databases & Journals
Here is a sample of some of the journals, ebooks, videos, etc that may be used as class texts or as supplemental materials.
- State Statistics This link opens in a new window Rand Texas, a service of the nation’s leading think tank, is a portfolio of statistics on Texas and other states drawn from over 270 statistical databases in 14 categories: Population & Demographics; Health & Health Care; Business & Economics; Crimes, Prisons & Courts; Labor Force, Employment & Earnings; Energy; Environment, Resources & Weather; K-12 Education;Higher Education; Income, Expenditure, Wealth & Poverty; Social Insurance & Human Services; Transportation & Travel; Federal Government; State & Local Government. The Library's subscription includes U.S. and Texas statistics. Rand Corporation
- Statista This link opens in a new window Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on more than 600 industries. In addition to tables and charts, Statista also provides infographics and studies on selected industries and topics. Statista Note: Remote access is restricted to UHV users.
Statistics
On this page you will find several open Statistics textbooks along with supplemental material. Many more may be found under Open Textbook Collections.
The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes. This list of content is by no means exhaustive. The nature of open educational resources is very collaborative and it is in that spirit that we encourage any comments about the content featured on this page or recommendations of content that are not already listed here.
Textbooks
- Collaborative StatisticsPublished by OpenStax College, Collaborative Statistics was written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, faculty members at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. The textbook was developed over several years and has been used in regular and honors-level classroom settings and in distance learning classes. This textbook is intended for introductory statistics courses being taken by students at two and fouryear colleges who are majoring in fields other than math or engineering. Intermediate algebra is the only prerequisite.
Introductory Business StatisticsISBN: 9781947172470Publication Date: 2017Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences
Introductory Statistics by ISBN: 9781947172050Publication Date: 2013-09-19Introductory Statistics follows scope and sequence requirements of a one-semester introduction to statistics course and is geared toward students majoring in fields other than math or engineering. The text assumes some knowledge of intermediate algebra and focuses on statistics application over theory. Introductory Statistics includes innovative practical applications that make the text relevant and accessible, as well as collaborative exercises, technology integration problems, and statistics labs.
Supplemental Material
- ArXivOpen access to Cornell University's E-Prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- Digital Commons Network - Statistics and Probability CommonsThe Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
- Probability and StatisticsKhan Academy features a collection of tutorial videos on the subject of Probability and Statistics. This collection features multiple videos on each of the following topics: independent and dependent events, probability and combinatorics, descriptive statistics, random variables and probability distributions, regression, and inferential statistics.
- Flowing DataFlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better — mainly through data visualization.
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