Online Textbooks in Statistics for Economists
This is an online text introducing statistical concepts across many different disciplines. Formerly known as the StatSoft textbook, it was updated in 2020. It "begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics."
This is a free online textbook on probability and statistics, making a lot of use of algebra. It starts with revision of mathematical tools including differentiation, has sections on foundations of probability and moves to more advanced topics such as Markov's inequality, probability mass and density, asymptotic theory and mathematical foundations of statistics. The site comes with a glossary.
A 14-chapter, free online textbook in general introductory statistics that has been built up by wiki-style contributions from named contributors. Each chapter has multiple sections, each with key points, definitions, text, images, and quizzes. Some customisation and adaptation is allowed by the site's free licence. Paying a fee (per student per class) unlocks other customisation features such as VLE integration.
SurfStat Australia is an online text in introductory Statistics produced at the University of Newcastle in Australia. It has five main sections: "Summarising and Presenting Data," "Producing Data," "Variation and Probability," "Statistical Inference" and "Control Charts". Text and images are interspersed with simple interactive quizzes.This link goes to the archived site on the Internet Archive.
HyperStat online is an introductory statistics textbook by David Lane of Rice University. It is arranged into 18 chapters, uses many interactive demonstrations and the textual content is broken into small chunks on successive pages. Each chapter ends with exercises, and offers selected answers. It also includes links to related material, recommended books and more information on how to use HyperStat in teaching.
Seeing Statistics is an online text book teaching statistics using the Internet. It requires registration before full use, but a sample tour is available for free. Text includes glossary and calculator. The site uses a succession of pop-up boxes for navigation which may be confusing to users or not appear if pop-ups are disabled by your Internet browser.
