Books

Would you like to use TK or TKTD modelling to answer (applied) scientific questions, but lack the background in modelling and/or statistics? Then this is the book for you. This book provides a small selection of the tools from math and stats, along with some elements from philosophy of science, to get you up to speed.

If you are able to contribute, it will go to support OpenIntro (not the author), a US-based nonprofit working to spread open materials, e.g. by providing desk copies to instructors considering this text. This listing is in collaboration with the textbook's author, Jim Hefferon. Linear Algebra's official websitePaperbacks are $22openintro.org

This book draws a complete picture of the data analysis process, filling out many details that are missing from previous presentations. It presents a new perspective on what makes for a successful data analysis and how the quality of data analyses can be judged.

Turn data into decisions. Data Visualization Using Tableau for Data Scientists shows how interactive visuals, analytics, and storytelling come together to make complex data understandable, actionable, and impactful.

Leanpub revenue supports OpenIntro. OpenIntro is a US-based nonprofit that provides textbook services to help increase adoption of OER textbooks and save students money. These textbook services are fully financed by Leanpub contributions on supported books. APEX Calculus website: apexcalculus.comOpenIntro website: openintro.org

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is the most widely used technique for investigating the living, functioning human brain as people perform tasks and experience mental states. This book covers the design, acquisition, and analysis of fMRI data.

A powerful new book on Conformal Prediction by bestselling author and machine learning expert Valery Manokhin, bridging theory and real-world machine learning. Discover how to quantify uncertainty with statistical guarantees—across deep learning, time series, forecasting, and more. Preorder now before the price goes up.

Toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) modelling is an exciting field of ecotoxicology that aims to understand and predict toxic effects, rather than just describing them. A lot of work has been done in this field, especially over the last two decades. However, many open (and in some cases fundamental) questions still remain to be solved.

Data analysis is now part of practically every research project in the life sciences. In this book we use data and computer code to teach the necessary statistical concepts and programming skills to become a data analyst. Instead of showing theory first and then applying it to toy examples, we start with actual applications and describe the theory as it becomes necessary to solve specific challenges. The book includes links to computer code that readers can use to follow along as they program.

A complete foundation for Statistics, also serving as a foundation for Data Science, that introduces inference using randomization and simulation while covering traditional methods. Leanpub revenue supports OpenIntro, so we can provide free desk copies to teachers interested in using our books in the classroom. More resources: openintro.org.

This book explores supervised machine learning for scientific research, addressing its limitations in interpretability, causality, and uncertainty quantification. By unifying philosophical justification with practical solutions, it provides a roadmap for turning machine learning into a rigorous tool for science.

New to research? This is the one book you should read. It's got everything. It'll take you from choosing your project and starting out in a lab, through designing experiments, acquiring data and performing the appropriate analysis, and all the way on to writing up your work for publication, and presenting your work at conferences.

Quantum computing is real, but is frankly surrounded by a thick fog of hype. Do you want to see it clearly, understand its realities, and even consider joining it as a professional software engineer?

A book about how to be a scientist the modern, open-source way.

Nature has already run the experiments. We just need to copy the results. Before human engineers built sensors, evolution spent millions of years perfecting them.Sensory Codex – Nature: The Big Scientist decodes 500 extraordinary biological mechanisms that bridge the gap between biology and the technologies of tomorrow. Ready to look at life through a different lens?