Legitimately free statistics books

Thursday, July 23, 2020 • edited Saturday, April 29, 2023

I have tried to avoid including any books that are available without permission from the authors or publishers.


Books by John Marder, (Department of Statistics, University of Illinois)


Statistical learning books by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and others


Time Series Analysis and Its Applications With R Examples, 4th Edition (PDF) by Robert H. Shumway (University of California, Davis) and David S. Stoffer (University of Pittsburgh)

The R Inferno (PDF) by Patrick Burns


Forecasting: Principles and Practice (HTML) by Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos


Books by Hadley Wickham (RStudio) and others

bookdown is an R-package, and most of the books written with bookdown are R-related.


Old and New Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics (PDF) by Thomas Minka, (Microsoft Research Lab – Cambridge)

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