Suggestions for the Library

Last year, a list of books suitable as gifts for the aspiring graduate school bound statistician made its way around the isostat mailing list. The same list of books might also be appropriate to consider for libraries at institutions that have isolated statisticians. Here is a (growing) list of appropriate books. Included is enough information to order them, and short descriptions of their content. (We need more content descriptions!)

Please suggest additional titles, give missing descriptions, or provide missing information!

I would especially like for you to suggest the many classics that I have certainly excluded. The choice of books listed was based mainly on having the information already in convenient form, not because they are the most suitable books for such a list.

I've also included links to various publishers of statistics textbooks for those looking to explore further.

These books are alphabatized by the last name of the first author.

Book Information

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Categorical Data Analysis
Alan Agresti
ISBN: 0-471-85301-1
Published in 1990
Description:

B

Conditioning Diagnostics
David A. Belsley
ISBN: 0-471-52889-7
Published by Wiley
Description:

Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Datas and Sources of Collinearity
Belsley, Kuh, and Welsch
ISBN: 0-471-05856-4
Published by Wiley in 1980
Description:

Probability and Measure
Patrick Billingsley
ISBN: 0-471-00710-2
Published by Wiley in 1995
Description:

Statistics for Experimenters
Box, Hunter & Hunter
ISBN: 0-471-09315-7
Published by Wiley in 1978
Description:

R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist
Joan Fisher Box
ISBN: 0-471-09300-9
Published by Oxford University Press
Description:

C

Problem Solving: A Statistician's Guide
Christopher Chatfield
ISBN: 0 412 28670 X
Published by Chapman & Hall
Description:

A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis
Chatterjee, Handcock, and Simonoff
ISBN: 0-471-11030-2
Published by Wiley in 1995
Description:

The Elements of Graphing Data
William Cleveland
ISBN: 0-963488-41
Published by Chapman and Hall in 1995
Description:

An Introduction to Regression Graphics
R. Dennis Cook and Sanford Weisberg
ISBN: 0-471-00839-7
Published by John Wiley in 1994
Description:

Statistics for Spatial Data
Noel Cressie
ISBN: 0-471-00255-0
Published by Wiley in 1993
Description:

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Last modified: May 31, 1996

Bret Larget, larget@mathcs.duq.edu