A-Z of Statistical methods

 

On this page you will find links to resources recommended by the Statistical Consulting Unit for wide variety of statistical concepts and methods. To find out more information, please follow the resource link to the Statistical Consulting Unit website.

 

Confidence intervals

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of confidence intervals.

  • Cumming, G. and Calin-Jageman, C. (2016). Introduction to the New Statistics. Routledge. 

 

Introduction to Statistics

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of introduction to statistics.

  • Moore DS, McCabe GP and Craig B. (2017). Introduction to the practice of statistics, 9th edition. Macmillan.

  • Freedman D, Pisani R, Purves R (2007). Statistics, 4th edition. New York: WW Norton.

 

Linear regression

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of linear regression.

  • Harrell, F.E. (2010). Regression Modeling Strategies. New York: Springer.
  • Faraway, J.J. (2014). Linear Models with R. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall.

 

Multivariate analysis

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of multivariate analysis.

  • B.G. Tabachnick, & L.S. Fidell, Using Multivariate Statistics, 7th Edition 2019. Pearson

 

Multilevel modelling

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of multilevel modelling.

  • Faraway, J.J. (2016). Extending the linear model with R, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall.
  • Everitt, B.S.  & Hothorn, T. (2010).  Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall.
  • Andrew Robinson, A. (2016). icebreakeR. Melbourne: University of Melbourne. https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Robinson-icebreaker.pdf
  • Gelman, A. and Hill, J. (2007). Data Analysis Using regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Permutations and bootstraps

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of permutations and bootstraps.

  • Good, P. (2005). Permutation, Parametric, and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses, 3rd edn. New York, Springer-Verlag

  • PI Good (2006). Resampling Methods, 3rd edition. Springer.

 

Statistical modelling

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of statistical modelling.

  • Agresti, A. (2007). An introduction to categorical data analysis, Hoboken- NJ Wiley:Interscience
  • Dobson, A.J. and Barnett, A. (2008). An introduction to Generalized linear models. 3rd edn. Chapman and Hall/CRC
  • McCulloch, C.and Searle, S. (2008). Generalized, linear and mixed models. 2nd edn. Wiley

 

Statistical software handbooks

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books for information on statistical software.

  • Everitt, B. and Hothorn, T. (2014). A handbook of statistical analyses using R, 3rd edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC
  • Landau, S. and Everitt, B. (2004). A handbook of statistical analyses using SPSS. Chapman & Hall/CRC
  • Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Everitt, B. (2007). A handbook of statistical analyses using Stata. 4th edn. Chapman and Hall/CRC
  • Maindonald, J. and Braun, J. (2010). Data analysis and graphics using R. 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press

 

Subject-specific statistical books

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on subject-specific statistics.

  • Bland, M. (2015). An Introduction to Medical Statistics, 4th edn. Oxford University Press
  • Manly, B.F.J. (2007). Randomization, bootstrap and monte carlo methods in biology. 3rd edn. Chapman and Hall/CRC

 

Time series regression

The Statistical Consulting Unit recommends this list of books on the topic of time series regression.

  • Hyndman, R. and Athanasopoulos, G. (2018). Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/ .