OpenIntro: Statistics: Preliminary Edition

OpenIntro is a new project. Statistics is our first book. David Diez and Christopher Barr founded the OpenIntro project in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing introductory books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. Since our first conversations, the project has grown to include a group of core Fellows - Filipp Brunshteyn, Mine Çetinkaya, Rob Gould and Meenal Patel - and countless other collaborators. Together, our team hopes to lead a growing movement in open source education. Our inaugural effort is OpenIntro: Statistics. First and foremost, OpenIntro: Statistics (Preliminary Edition) strives to be a complete introductory textbook of the highest caliber. Its core derives from the classic notions of statistics education, and is extended by recent innovations. This, our first release, includes chapters in foundations of probability and statistical inference, and also reflects the increasing interest in simulations and applied data analysis. The approach is immersive and practical. We are proud to make the book available in paperback for less than 7 dollars from amazon.com and free in PDF from our homepage openintro.org. Visit us often to track our progress and get involved. David M Diez is a postdoctoral fellow and Christopher D Barr is an assistant professor - both in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Mine Çetinkaya is a graduating doctoral student in the Department of Statistics at UCLA.