Handouts and booklets for statistics in economics

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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

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

Ana Fernandes, University of Sussex

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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

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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