Open Source statistical textbooks?

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There have been a few questions about statistical textbooks, such as the question Free statistical textbooks. However, I am looking for textbooks that are Open Source, for example, having an Creative Commons license. The reason is that in course material in other domains, you still want to include some text about basic statistics. In this case, it would be interesting to reuse existing material, instead of rewriting that material.

Therefore, what Open Source textbooks on statistics (and perhaps machine learning) are available?

On the other hand, can a book be open source? It rather applies to code, so probably the better word is "open book".
Any policy on how to aggregate the four answers into one wiki answer?

Shane · Answer 1 · 2010-07-25 15:32:59Z

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Multivariate statistics with R

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Shane · Answer 2 · 2010-07-25 15:32:14Z

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The "Statistics" book on wikibooks

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Stephen Turner · Answer 3 · 2010-07-29 18:59:01Z

Try IPSUR, Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R. It's free in the GNU sense of the word.

http://ipsur.r-forge.r-project.org/book/index.php

It's definitely open source - on the download page you can download the LaTeX source or the lyx source used to generate this.

mbq · Answer 4 · 2010-07-25 23:56:43Z

Some googling found http://collegeopentextbooks.org/statisticsprobbooks.html . Still, be aware that most of CC-ed material is share-aliked (so you must also publish your work on CC) or at least attributed (so you must add info that certain part was copied and from whom). The same works with GFDL (both SA & A), it is even worse since in principle you should print it along with the document.

John D. Cook · Answer 5 · 2010-07-26 20:08:09Z

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Introduction to Statistical Thought

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Dave Kellen · Answer 6 · 2010-07-27 14:38:34Z

Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model

I covers basic linear models (ANOVA, ANCOVA, multiple regression). I can tell by personal experience that it is really really good book to get into the general framework of linear models, which are very useful in many advanced approaches (e.g., hierarchical modeling)

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This is Creative Commons but does not allow derivates... :( That way, I cannot use the bits in my own course material, just the bits I need them to know...