Library Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Statistics

Open Resources in Statistics

This page provides access to textbook repositories along with other selected open resources.

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, and more resources will be continually added.

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.

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Open Textbooks

Introductory Statistics by Barbara Illowsky; Susan Dean
ISBN: 1938168208
Publication Date: 2013
Introductory 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.

Open Textbook Library - Mathematics & Statistics
A project of the University of Minnesota, The Open Textbook Library provides a review rubric for faculty to use when evaluating textbooks and displays them for the benefit of potential adopters.

Other Resources

MIT Open Courseware
Statistics and related materials, including video and audio lectures, lecture notes, student work, assessments and interactive simulations. Advanced search feature available.