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Statistics

·  OpenStax - Introductory Business Statistics - Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors.

·  BCcampus OpenEd - Introduction Business Statistics with Interactive  Spreadsheets - is an adaptation of Thomas K. Tiemann's book, "Introductory Business Statistics". In addition to covering basics such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and sampling distributions, descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics, the following information has been added: the chi-square test and categorical variables, null and alternative hypotheses for the test of independence, simple linear regression model, least squares method, coefficient of determination, confidence interval for the average of the dependent variable, and prediction interval for a specific value of the dependent variable.

· Open Textbook Library - Introduction to Statistics - Introduction to Statistics is a resource for learning and teaching introductory statistics.

· BCcampus OpenED - Data Analysis - This resource covers the following learning objectives: explain the uses and misuses of statistics; demonstrate an understanding of mean, median, mode, range, quartiles, percentiles, standard deviation, the normal curve, z scores, sampling error, and confidence intervals; graphically present data in the form of frequency tables, line graphs, bar graphs, and stem and leaf plots; and design and conduct a statistics project, analyze the data and communicate your observations about the data.

· Grasple - Statistics Exercises -  here you will find a list of all the lessons and exercises on statistics, probability and research methods, that are open or will be released with an open license.