Free statistics e-books for download
October 25th, 2009 by Tal Galili 
7 Comments This post will eventually grow to hold a wide list of books on statistics (e-books, pdf books and so on) that are available for free download. But for now we’ll start off with just one several books:
- The Elements of Statistical Learning written by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman. you can legally download a copy of the book in pdf format from the authors website! Direct download (First discovered on the “one R tip a day” blog)
- R related:
- Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC 2004 ISBN/ASIN: 1584884509 ISBN-13: 9781584884507 Number of pages: 114 Description: The author presents a self-contained treatment of statistical topics and the intricacies of the R software. The book treats exploratory data analysis with more attention than is typical, includes a chapter on simulation, and provides a unified approach to linear models. This text lays the foundation for further study and development in statistics using R. Download link
- R Graphics (Three chapters only) by Paul Murrell ISBN: 9781584884866 ISBN 10: 158488486X Publication Date: July 29, 2005 Number of Pages: 328 Description: Chapter 1: An Introduction to R Graphics Chapter 4: Trellis Graphics: The Lattice Package Chapter 5: The Grid Graphics Model Download link (see scripts and images here)
- Using R Download link
- R intro Download link
- Psychometric Theory with Applications in R by William Revelle (a work in progress) Download link
- A great long list of R related texts, for free download, can be found here.
- Using Graphs Instead of Tables website link (This web page accompanies the article “Using Graphs Instead of Tables in Political Science”, by Jonathan Kastellec and Eduardo Leoni, which appears in the December 2007 issue of Perspectives on Politics. It contains complete replication code for all the graphs that appear in the text)
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Tags: book, ebook, Jerome Friedman, machine learning, R, Robert Tibshirani, statistical learning, statistics, Trevor Hastie
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I don’t know if this counts or not, but Ben Bolker’s first three chapters of Ecological models and data in R are available online: http://www.press.princeton.edu/titles/8709.html
More about the book and some materials is available at the author’s homepage @ http://people.biology.ufl.edu/bolker/emdbook/
Good link, thank you Romunov
[...] One person, Bernd Weiss, responded by linking to the chapter “Plotting Regression Coefficients” on an interesting online book (I have never heard of before) called “Using Graphs Instead of Tables” (I should add this link to the free statistics e-books list…) [...]
[...] One person, Bernd Weiss, responded by linking to the chapter “Plotting Regression Coefficients” on an interesting online book (I have never heard of before) called “Using Graphs Instead of Tables” (I should add this link to the free statistics e-books list…) [...]
G. Jay Kerns recently published an
“Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R” book [1] that was generated using LyX with Sweave. The book and the source files are available for download, under the free GNU FDL licence.
[1] http://ipsur.r-forge.r-project.org/book/index.php
[2] http://ipsur.r-forge.r-project.org/book/downloads.php
Thanks Liviu for the link!
I recently came by that and intended to add it to the article.
BTW, notice that the book is not yet finished (at least when I checked it a couple of days ago)
Best,
Tal
The book is indeed work-in-progress. I am currently reading it and although not yet complete, it seems a good, self-contained introduction to stats with R (and Rcmdr). It would probably make sense to perceive it as a package in development, which has just hit 1.0. In the preface, the author kindly asks for contributions (as per GNU FDL).
Cheers
Liviu