John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., a subsidiary of global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the acquisition of the Arnold Statistics book list from Hodder Education. The acquisition complements existing areas of strength in the Wiley statistics publishing programme, including medical statistics and statistical theory and methodology, while also providing an additional route into areas of strong growth, including statistics for business and industry and statistics for the social sciences.
The list of approximately 50 titles includes a number of bestselling books by renowned authors and editors, such as G. M. Clarke and D. Cooke's Basic Course in Statistics, 5th Edition; Peter M. Lee's Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction; and Brian S. Everitt and Graham Dunn's Applied Multivariate Data Analysis, 2nd Edition.
Forming part of the Hachette U.K. Group, Hodder Education publishes educational books and digital resources for students at secondary school, college, and adult learner levels and also caters for the reference and learning needs of professionals in the health sciences. Hachette UK is one of the largest book publishing groups in the UK.