[Blindmath] Recommendations/Freebees for Statistics Books

[Zachary Mason]

Thanks.

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> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:31 PM, vincent martin via Blindmath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Zack,
> What would be covered in that second semester of Statistics?  Also, there
> are Statistics books on the Bookshare site that do have some of  the
> equations in Math ML and a lot on research design.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Godfrey,
> Jonathan via Blindmath
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 12:20 PM
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> Cc: Godfrey, Jonathan <A.J.Godfrey at massey.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Recommendations/Freebees for Statistics Books
>
> Hi Zach,
>
> I thought the official help documentation for SAS on their website would be
> a  pretty good for offerng a theoretical starting point and the necessary
> SAS code for an example for the majority of the topics you listed.
>
> That's where I would look first anyway.
> Jonathan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Blindmath
> Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2016 6:01 a.m.
> To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
> Cc: Zach
> Subject: [Blindmath] Recommendations/Freebees for Statistics Books
>
> Hello:
>
>
>
> I've introduced myself a few times, but just to reiterate, I'm a blind
> graduate student at Mississippi State University in the department of Animal
> Dairy Science. Last semester was such a nightmare finding an accessible
> version of my textbook; my disabilities office was having issues translating
> the PDF into nemeth, I couldn't figure out how to get the MathML set up to
> work like it did at Cornell; finally about a month and a half into the class
> I was able to renew my membership with Learning Ally and get the book. It
> was still a struggle learning SAS when the only person who comprehended I
> couldn't use the mouse was my advisor, and the professor would ask so many
> "based on the graph." questions; but I'm almost done. I took an incomplete
> in the class and just have one homework, two take home tests and the final
> exam to finish up. Anyway, to make a long story short, my advisor said that
> because of the issues I'd had in stats, which is a department known
> campus-wide to have issu  es providing non-stats students quality education,
> and because I matriculated before the requirements were changed that she
> would only have me take the one stats. All other students are taking both
> semesters of stats, and I know there is a lot more I need to learn about
> study design.
>
> I have a book, "The Theory of the Design of Experiments" by D.R. Cox and N.
> Reid, but the equations can't be read. If someone can help either by
> suggesting a book on the Learning Ally Library, or telling me where I could
> get a free or significantly reduced price accessible book I would be most
> appreciative. Concepts covered in my introductory stats included:
>
> Means, medians, modes, percentiles, etc.
>
> Standard deviation
>
> Probability
>
> Binomial distributions
>
> Z-tests and confidence intervals
>
> T-tests
>
> Inference for distributions
>
> Inference for the mean of a population
>
> Comparing two means
>
> Inference for Proportions
>
> Inference for single proportion
>
> Comparing two proportions
>
> Chi-square
>
> Inference for two-way tables
>
> *         Formulas and models for two-way tables
>
> Goodness of fit
>
> *         Inference for regression
>
> *         Simple linear regression
>
> *         Inference for multiple regression
>
> *         One-way analysis of variance
>
> *         Inference for one-way analysis of variance
>
> *         Comparing the means
>
> *         Two-way INOVA model
>
> *         Inference for two-way INOVA
>
> I listed mostly the chapter and section titles from the book after T-tests.
> The bulleted subjects are topics I still very much need brushing up
> on/supplementary material.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Zac
>
>
>
> P.S. if there are any JAWS SAS users out there, hello! Glad to meet you.
> Happy to trade tips and questions any time.
>
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