UBC Intro Stats Bibliography
- Statistics for Management and Economics, by Gerald Keller, Brian Warrack. Jonathan uses this book. It also comes with Data Analysis Plus add-in for MS Excel.
- Data Analysis With Microsoft Excel (Business Statistics), by Kenneth N. Berk and Partrick Carey. Johnathan uses this book.
- Intro Stats (3rd ed) by DeVeaux, Velleman and Bock, 2009. Eugenia uses this book. It offers specific guidance for running analyses for a number of most commonly used stats software.
- The Analysis of Biological Data by Michael Whitlock, Dolph Schluter, 2008. Mike W wrote and uses this book. It has Monty Python jokes.
- Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely. On Behavioural Economics. Mentioned by Jonathan to support a claim that many small assignments are better than few long because people procrastinate.
- Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, by Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan. Mentioned by JB and and MW.
- Problem Solving: A statistician's guide by Chris Chatfield. Mentioned by JB.
- Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David A. Freedman. Mentioned by JB in Feb 25.
- The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics by Keith Devlin and Gary Lorden. Mentioned by JB as good source of examples.
- Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures by Howard Wainer. Mentioned by JB on May 26, 2009.
- Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian Genius by Derek William Forrest. Mentioned by JB on May 26, 2009.
- Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. Mentioned by JB on May 26, 2009.
- Regression with graphics: A Second course in applied statistics by Lawrence C. Hamilton. Mentioned by JB on Jun 20, 2009 to refer to example with "water usage" and income.
