The official textbook for the course is Introductory Statistics (3rd Ed.) by Sheldon Ross.
But most of the material for the course can be found in the following “open educational resources” (OERs):
- OpenIntro Statistics: https://www.openintro.org/book/os/
- OpenStax Statistics: https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-statistics
- Introduction to Probability by Charles M. Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell (pdf at https://math.dartmouth.edu/~prob/prob/prob.pdf, or online on LibreTexts)
- Khan Academy’s Probability and Statistics course
If you have some programming experience, the following textbooks use programming languages (instead of spreadsheets) for doing statistics and probability:
- An Introduction to the Science of Statistics: From Theory to Implementation, by Joseph Watkins (a math professor at the University of Arizona); this book uses the the statistical programming language R
- Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers by Allen Downey; this book uses the programming language Python
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