The official text for this course is Introductory Statistics (3rd Ed.) by Sheldon Ross. A copy of this book is available on reserve in the CityTech library.
An additional suggested text: How to Think About Statistics by John L. Phillips.
There are a number of free online textbooks that cover the course material, such as:
- Introduction to Statistics by David Lane (an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Statistics, and Management at the Rice University)
- in particular, this book’s Glossary may be useful!
If you have some basic programming experience, the following textbooks use programming languages (instead of spreadsheets):
- 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
