Handouts and booklets in statistics for social sciences
Rich Harris, School of Geographical Sciences and Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol
Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science: an introduction in R
- Section 1: Getting Started (9 pages)
- Section 2: Descriptive Statistics (8 pages)
- Section 3: The Normal curve (7 pages)
- Section 4: Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing (12 pages)
- Section 5: Correlation and Regression (13 pages)
Library for R to accompany the above text: SGES_1.0.tar.gz or SGES_1.01.zip
Paula Surridge, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol
- Understanding the Chi-square Test (4 pages)
- Crosstabulations and the Chi-square test: Worked Examples (5 pages)
- Elaborating Relationships: exploring three-way crosstabulations (12 pages)
- Graphs and Charts in Excel and Powerpoint 2007 (27 pages with screenshots)
Ana Fernandes, University of Sussex
- Statistics for Economics and Finance: Course handbook 2009
- Statistics for Economics and Finance: Course handbook 2010
- Revision session: tips and topics
External links
Ron Smith, Birkbeck, University of London
The course booklet Applied Statistics and Econometrics: Notes and Exercises is available through TRUE: Econometrics under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial licence. Sections of interest include 6: Descriptive statistics, 9: Index numbers, 10: Probability, 11: Discrete random variables, 12: Continuous random variables
Kevin McConway, The Open University
One-page introductory essays available through OpenLearn under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence
- Statistics: What is it, or what are they?
- Averages
- Probability
- Confusing terms in statistics: "significant" and "reliable"
- Statistics and the media
- Surveys: the Art of the Possible
- Numbers in business
- Performance indicators, targets and league tables
Barbra Ilowsky & Susan Dean, De Anza College, California
Collaborative Statistics is a complete, 627-page statistics textbook available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.
It can be downloaded in a variety of formats, or viewed online as a series of pages, with some basic interactivity.
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