APES

Stats References

References

This page lists recommended statistics textbooks and online courses. Note that we have separete pages for

General statistics resources

Textbooks For ecologists / biologists that are only interested in basic applications (low on theory, strong focus on application)

  • Crashcourse - lecture notes Essential Statistics

  • Gotelli, N. J. & Ellison, A. M. (2004) A Primer Of Ecological Statistics. Sinauer Associates,

  • M. Henry H. Stevens (2009) A Primer of Ecology with R. Springer.

  • Field, A.; Miles, J. & Field, Z. (2012) Discovering statistics Using R. Sage Link

Textbooks suitable for people that want to concentrate on ecological statistics

  • Hilborn & Mangel (1997) The Ecological Detective: confronting models with data. Princeton University Press.

  • James, G.; Witten, D.; Hastie, T. & Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R. Kostenloses pdf + MOOC here, list of videos

  • Gelman, A. & Hill, J. (2006) Data analysis using regression and multilevel/hierarchical models. Cambridge University Press,

  • B. M. Bolker (2008) Ecological Models and Data in R. Princeton University Press.

  • James S. Clark (2007) Models for Ecological Data: an introduction. Princeton University Press.

Foundational statistics

  • E.T. Jaynes “Probability, The Language of Science.”

  • Leonard Jimmie Savage, “The Foundations of Statistics.”

Deutsche Einführungen

  • Dormann, C. F. (2013) Parametrische Statistik. Springer, , 333-334. Free ebook for students from the University of Freiburg here (works only within the university network). Buy a paper version here

  • Dormann, C. & Kühn, I. (2011) Angewandte Statistik fuer die biologischen Wissenschaften (kostenloses Skript pdf

Videos / MOOCs

  • Coursera - Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization link

  • Coursera - Data Science Specialization link

  • Coursera - Big Data Specialization link

  • Coursera - Genomic Data Science Specialization link

  • List of stats courses on EDx link

  • MarinStatsLectures

Specialized topics