Last week, Google books intro­duced a facil­ity whereby users can cre­ate their own “library” con­tain­ing a sub­set of books to search. I have set up a library of sta­tis­ti­cal books to aid in search­ing the sta­tis­ti­cal literature.

My Google library is intended to include all the books on my office shelves, plus a whole lot more that I would like to buy if I had more money (and more shelf space). It is meant to be a col­lec­tion of the best (but not all) sta­tis­tics books, although I have tried to be rel­a­tively com­plete in some areas includ­ing fore­cast­ing, time series, sta­tis­ti­cal mod­el­ling and sta­tis­ti­cal com­put­ing. Only books that are search­able are included.

I have already found it extremely use­ful in track­ing down that elu­sive ref­er­ence needed for a new research paper, and I think oth­ers may find it use­ful too.

Related Posts:

• Search­ing the research literature
• Cre­at­ing a Bib­TeX file from a Google Library
• Econo­met­rics and R
• Fore­cast­ing and time series books
• Rec­om­mended sur­vey papers