 | How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $4.32 A great way to start thinking about statistics; A supplement to go with a "real" textbook in first quarter of undergraduate statistics; Almost no math; No programming
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 | Statistics, 4th Edition by David Freedman
Buy new: $106.45 / Used from: $74.00 This is the best real statistics book I have read. It will help you develop intuitions about how common statistics really work. It needs a programming supplement.
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 | Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis, Second Edition (Texts in Statistical Science) by Mark Woodward
Buy new: $80.32 / Used from: $62.00 Easily the best practical book on Epidemiology. It includes SAS examples for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
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 | Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials 3/e (with SPSS) by Norman
Buy new: $71.95 / Used from: $50.00 My favorite biostatistics book despite having no programming (hint hint it must be darn good). It has excellent breadth for epidemiology and biostatistics; irreverent style and wonderful writing; for better or worse, very little math
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 | Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence by Judith D. Singer
Buy new: $57.77 / Used from: $45.00 The first book you want to read on longitudinal/repeated measures/mixed models/ hierarchical linear models; The best writing you will ever find in any text book; Code for all major statistics packages; Hands down my all time favorite statistics book.
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 | Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Jr. Harrell
Buy new: $94.89 / Used from: $87.89 A fantastic second book on regression. It covers how to pick variables for predicting outcomes far better than any other book I have seen. It is written for S-Plus users but is very useful for everybody.
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 | An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by Alan Agresti
Buy new: $92.45 / Used from: $53.85 This is the second book you want to read on categorical data analysis. It is excellent but not for amateurs. The SAS but the code is antiquated.
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 | Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health) by David G. Kleinbaum
Buy new: $84.37 / Used from: $58.75 An excellent introduction which is more theoretical than the Allison SAS based book. Does a great job separating the math from the concepts; Some but nowhere enough programming examples; First edition is easier to read than the second.
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 | Applied logistic regression (Wiley Series in probability and statistics) by David W. Hosmer
Buy new: $100.07 / Used from: $78.00 Perhaps a good first book definitely a great second book on the topic; Excellent theoretical coverage; Some SAS programming examples
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 | Statistical Methods for Rates & Proportions by Joseph L. Fleiss
Buy new: $95.81 / Used from: $74.99 The best written in-depth coverage of the topics. It needs a code supplement.
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 | Bayesian Statistical Inference (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Professor Gudmund R. Iversen
Buy used from: $15.64 A tiny but wonderfully written introduction to the concepts; not much math and no code
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 | Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples, Second Edition by Glenn A. Walker
Buy new: $56.65 / Used from: $27.99 Highly recommended if you have a biostatistics class that is too theoretical. For better or worse, it is a bit of a cookbook on how to do analysis with SAS.
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 | Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide by Paul D. Allison
Buy new: $35.66 / Used from: $24.90 An awesome applied survival book but it needs a second edition.
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 | Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application by Paul D. Allison
Buy new: $56.41 / Used from: $54.00 a very good applied logistic regression book; it needs a second edition
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 | Categorical Data Analysis Using the SAS System by Maura E. Stokes
Buy new: $61.15 / Used from: $55.99 This is the bible for doing categorical analyses in SAS. While not bad, it does not read easily.
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 | Data Manipulation with R (Use R) by Phil Spector
Buy new: $44.37 / Used from: $27.57 The name says it all. This should be the first book people read on R. It covers the stuff you need to know before you can graph and analyze.
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 | Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing) by Peter Dalgaard
Buy new: $48.11 / Used from: $38.00 If you need to learn R start with Spector and use this also.
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 | Data Analysis and Graphics Using R: An Example-based Approach (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics) by John Maindonald
Buy new: $69.73 / Used from: $58.08 Fantastic coverage of the graphics you should be doing with all the main analyses out there.
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 | Using R for Introductory Statistics by John Verzani
Buy new: $45.01 / Used from: $34.08 I love this book for the general breadth of coverage. Everything is clearly presented. This would be my recommendation on where to start in R except that the index is the worst in the history of publishing. I frequently find myself thinking, I know the answer is in Verzani but then I cant find it.
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 | Introduction to S & S-PLUS (Statistics Software) by Phil Spector
Buy new: $131.95 / Used from: $16.13 A much better introduction than the commonly suggested Venables and Ripley books. Clearly written, short and to the point.
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 | Matrix Algebra as a Tool (Alexander Kugushev) by Ali S. Hadi
Buy used from: $19.00 A great book to use to learn matrix math. It needs a programming supplement.
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 | Matrix Algebra: An Introduction (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Krishnan Namboodiri
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $6.99 Nicely written but a bit too much instruction on doing things by hand. Has a bit of SAS code
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 | Creating More Effective Graphs by Naomi B. Robbins
Buy new: $51.96 / Used from: $46.99 This should be required reading for anyone who produces any graphics. Just get it. It is full of dos and donts for scientific graphics. About 400 pages with pairs of pages showing a graphic and discussion.
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 | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Buy new: $28.80 / Used from: $20.37 All of Tufte's books are wonderful to look at and read. This one is the most technical of the bunch but it is still not scientifically rigorous for my taste. This book belongs on a coffee table rather than a bookshelf.
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 | Visualizing Data by William S. Cleveland
Buy new: $49.00 / Used from: $44.00 Simply brilliant if you want to learn how to represent data graphically and think about the psych behind what makes a good graphic. Lots of S-Plus examples.
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 | The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland
Buy new: $49.00 / Used from: $36.49 see Visualizing Data comments
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 | Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures by Howard Wainer
Buy new: $35.73 / Used from: $18.99 Great discussion of what makes a good graphic good; History of scientific graphics; Famous graphics and why they do and dont work
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 | Learning Perl, 5th Edition by Randal Schwartz
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $20.37 |
 | Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days (2nd Edition) by Laura Lemay
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $15.00 Almost every topic I have needed is in here.
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 | The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants (4th Edition) by Judith S. Bowman
Buy new: $45.49 / Used from: $8.04 Great general SQL book
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 | PROC SQL by Example: Using SQL within SAS by Howard Schreier
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $62.18 Good book covers basic to advanced stuff.
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