Open Educational Resources (OER): Top 5 STATISTIEK

This book is meant to be a textbook for a standard one-semester introductory statistics course for general education students. Our motivation for writing it is twofold: 1.) to provide a low-cost alternative to many existing popular textbooks on the market; and 2.) to provide a quality textbook on the subject with a focus on the core material of the course in a balanced presentation.

In bachelor-opleidingen in sociale, (bio-)medische en economische wetenschappen is statistiek een belangrijk onderdeel. Het is vaak een struikelblok, omdat studenten in deze opleidingen meestal geen sterke wiskundige achtergrond hebben. In dit project heeft de Universiteit Utrecht een verzameling modules voor initieel statistiekonderwijs ontwikkeld die geschikt zijn voor studenten met uiteenlopende achtergronden. (bron: website)

This is a new approach to an introductory statistical inference textbook, motivated by probability theory as logic. It is targeted to the typical Statistics 101 college student, and covers the topics typically covered in the first semester of such a course. It is freely available under the Creative Commons License, and includes a software library in Python for making some of the calculations and visualizations easier.

As our society increasingly calls for evidence-based decision making, it is important to consider
how and when we can draw valid inferences from data. This module will use four recent
research studies to highlight key elements of a statistical investigation.

Statistics is the science that turns data into information and information into knowledge.