Open text books for statistics application courses

Free statistics books on web are available in four form- (1) Books in printable format (2) E-books (hypertext books) (3) Interactive books (4) Books available in form of notes and slides. We will try to cover all types of books (or materials) which may be used as text book for statistics course or can assist such courses.

Sites for link of books

1. CCCOER: The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort by many community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and especially open textbooks in community college courses.  It has good collection of statistics books also which are basically wikibooks.

2. Textbook Revolution: is another site where one can get many types of free books and e-books, certainly book on statistics also.

3. Teaching resources: It provides link for variety of teaching resources including book, tutorials, notes, data, iterative tools etc.

4. Web-oriented Teaching Resources in Probability and Statistics: Links placed at site are those  books which having exercises and dynamic demonstration. For linked sites, there is hidden ranking. The better and more extensive a resource, the closer to the top of the table it is.

5. UCLA Statistics Collection: It has large number of preprints, statistical thesis and dissertations.

Introductory books

1. A new view of statistics: Although this e-book has been written for researchers and students in the sport and exercise sciences but it can help students and researchers struggling to understand stats in other disciplines. Basically it is easy to translate many problems in life as problem of sports and exercise. Although this book has discussed some advance topics like binomial regression and Baysian technique but its language is very simple, computational complexity has been avoided. Intuition, interpretation has got more emphasis. 

2. Book for Life Science With emphasis on graph: Class notes created by C. J. Schwarz, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, covers wide range of topics used in statistics course curriculum of life sciences. These notes are a summary of the important points in statistics course in life sciences. Notes on graphical representation may draw attention of users. As such, notes are not intended to be a complete replacement for a text book, nor intended to be a reference. In many sections, the details have been omitted with intention of that these will usually be covered in class.

3. Site of David M. Lane: It contain online introductory statistics Textbook. and Online Tutorial for Help in Statistics Courses. It is mixed of free and advertisement link. Site has good link through stat primier and jokes.

4. Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics: It is full-length, and occasionally interactive statistics textbook. It is a companion site of VassarStats, a web Site for Statistical Computation. Each chapter and chapter part can be saved as a PDF file for easy printing or off-line study.

5. Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study is an introductory-level statistics book. The material is presented both as a standard textbook and as a multimedia presentation. The book features interactive demonstrations and simulations, case studies, and an analysis lab. 

6. Site of visual statistics provides work of selected professors, inclusing book also).

7. The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice: Book written by Gerard E. Dallal avilable at site of Tufts University. It covers basic topics used in statistics application courses. 

 Books on advance topics 

1. StatSoft: This e book cover advance topic covered in undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others.
       The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by "modules," accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.

2. Site of StatLink provide links for wide range of topics including Baysian statistics, computational statistics, stochastic processes, spatial statistics, time series, generalize linear models etc. Site also covers topic which has been used in different context area like social statistics, medical statistics, econometrics,  quality control, environmentrics, astrostatistics.

3. Advance topic on methods of data and knowledge mining by using decision tree approach.

4. Book on Time Series: Time series data has distinguished feature for its analysis. Unlike most of statistical tools time series tools are not based upon assumption of independence. Book one time series can be found at Federal Forecasters Consortium. This book covers traditional and some advance topics used in time series. Site also provides link for data.
   Another book (covering some advance models) can be found at site of Professor Hossein Arsham. More advance topic may be downloaded from MIT open courseware or from from site of Australian Bureau of Statistics. Data for time series can be downloaded from Time Series Data Library.