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Statistical Modeling provides an introduction to regression, survival analysis, and time series analysis for students who have completed calculus-based courses in probability and mathematical statistics. The book uses the R language to fit statistical models, conduct Monte Carlo simulation experiments, and generate graphics. Over 300 exercises at the end of the chapters make this an appropriate text for a class in statistical modeling.

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This guide provides an overview of the publishing process authors working with VIVA Open Publishing, currently focused on the publication of open educational resources (OER). It is a work in progress and will be updated to reflect the most up-to-date services, workflows, expectations, and guidance.

Open Music Theory Version 2 (OMT2) is an open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. As an open and natively-online resource, OMT2 is substantially different from other commercially-published music theory textbooks, though it still provides the same content that teachers expect from a music theory text.

OMT2 has been designed inclusively. For us, this means broadening our topics beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory topics to include fundamentals, musical form, jazz, pop, rhythm, and orchestration. And within those traditional sections of harmony and atonal theory, the authors have deliberately chosen composers who represent diverse genders and races. The book is accessible. And perhaps most importantly, the book is completely free and always will be.

The text of the book is augmented with several different media: video lessons, audio, interactive notated scores with playback, and small quizzes are embedded directly into each chapter for easy access.

OMT2 introduces a full workbook to accompany the text. Almost every chapter offers at least one worksheet on that topic. Some chapters, especially in the Fundamentals section, also collect additional assignments that can be found on other websites.

Version 2 of this textbook is collaboratively authored and edited by Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson.

The Craft of Sociological Research: Principles and Methods of Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Social Science Data was developed with the goal of developing an open educational resource (OER) that makes well-written and engaging methods-training materials available for free to students. The manuscript was written by a team of authors at Virginia Commonwealth University who are all researchers as well as teachers of undergraduate methods courses. Some portions of the text were adapted from existing OER social scientific methods textbooks, and others are original. Our aim is to provide broad but sound coverage of widely used methodologies, giving students the background they need to both evaluate and conduct research. While targeted at undergraduates, the textbook includes optional sections that provide more advanced methodological training. It also features Q&As with prominent sociologists and sidebars on topical issues that social scientific research has helped illuminate. We hope the text is accessible to students with a variety of backgrounds and interests, and to that end we have tried to make the writing lively and clear throughout and provide supplemental online and multimedia resources when possible.

This project was funded with the generous support of the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), a program of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), and VCU Libraries’ Open and Affordable Course Content Initiative.

A two-volume history of the College of William & Mary, published in 1993 to celebrate its tercentenary, shares the history of William & Mary’s first three centuries. Volume 1 depicts the first two centuries of the College as it was founded, expanded, and its struggle to survive financial troubles, war, dwindling enrollments, poor leadership, limited community support, and competition from other Virginia colleges.

The College of William & Mary: A History is an “out of print” book originally published by the King & Queen Press at the College of William & Mary. In 2025, the W&M Press reprinted this book as a digital edition. In 2025, the W&M Press reprinted this book as a digital edition. The content of the book has not been changed, except that some text and images in the portfolio section are configured differently to better fit the new formats. In addition to an edited copyright page, the book has a new cover, and information on how to adopt the book.

A two-volume history of the College of William & Mary, published in 1993 to celebrate its tercentenary, shares the history of William & Mary’s first three centuries. Volume 2 depicts the third century of the College through its rebuilding, expansion, and evolution into a major public institution.

The College of William & Mary: A History is an “out of print” book originally published by the King & Queen Press at the College of William & Mary. In 2025, the W&M Press reprinted this book as a digital edition. In addition to an edited copyright page, the book has a new cover, and information on how to adopt the book.

This book offers an anthology of texts that includes letters, journals, poetry, newspaper articles, pamphlets, sermons, narratives, and short fiction written in and about America beginning with collected oral stories from Native American tribes and ending with the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Many major and minor authors are included, providing a sampling of the different styles, topics, cultures, and concerns present during the formation and development of America through the mid-nineteenth century.

This text was created for use in Virginia Commonwealth (VCU) BIOL 152: Introduction to Biological Sciences II

ENCUENTROS EN SALUD y CULTURA: Pacientes hispanohablantes en el sistema de salud de los EE.UU. es un libro virtual gratuito interactivo para estudiantes y profesionales de la salud que buscan mejorar sus destrezas lingüísticas y culturales en el campo del español médico. Este libro está compuesto de 7 capítulos. Cada capítulo se enfoca en un encuentro en salud y cultura con pacientes hispanohablantes.