📚 Statistics

Making sense of noisy data — probability and inference, and the difference between a real effect and one that only looks real.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject statistics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Statistics	Robin H. Lock	2012	51
	Statistical methods for research workers	Ronald Aylmer Fisher	1925	49
	Financial Statistics	Office for National Statistics	1996	48
	Elementary Statistics	Allan G. Bluman	1992	44
	Workshop statistics	Allan J. Rossman	1996	42
	The advanced theory of statistics	Maurice G. Kendall	1943	31
	How to Lie with Statistics	Darrell Huff	1954	29
	Schaum's outline of theory and problems of statistics in SI units	Murray R. Spiegel	1961	29
	Elementary Statistics	Robert Russell Johnson	1973	28
	Elementary statistics	Allan G. Bluman	2003	25
	Factfulness	Hans Rosling	2018	25
	Introductory statistics for the behavioral sciences	Joan Welkowitz	1971	24
	Mathematical statistics	Peter J. Bickel	1977	22
	Understandable statistics	Charles Henry Brase	1978	22
	Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics	Neil J. Salkind	2000	22
	Statistics	David S. Moore	1979	21
	Statistics for business and economics	Paul Newbold	1984	21
	Research Design	John W. Creswell	1994	21
	Statistics for business and economics	James T. McClave	1978	20
	Statistics	Jay L. Devore	1985	19
	Modern elementary statistics	John E. Freund	1952	18
	Elementary statistics	Mario F. Triola	1980	18
	Statistics	Robert S. Witte	1980	17
	Introduction to business statistics	Alan H. Kvanli	1986	17
	Basic statistics	Chris Spatz	1976	16
	A first course in statistics	James T. McClave	1983	15
	Introduction to Probability and Statistics	William Mendenhall	1967	14
	The Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Edward R. Tufte	1983	14
	Statistics for business and economics	David Ray Anderson	1984	14
	Statistics for management and economics	William Mendenhall	1971	13

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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