Adyelotte, William O., Allan G. Bogue, and Robert William Fogel, eds. The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972).
A collection of essays by leading pioneers of quantitative history that includes case studies in the social, political, and economic development of the United States, France, and Great Britain.

Clubb, Jerome M., Erik W. Austin, and Gordon W. Kirk, Jr. The Process of Historical Inquiry: Everyday Lives of Working Americans (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989).
Uses data collected on families of American textile workers in 1888-90 as case study for the application of quantitative historical methods and elementary statistical analysis.

Fogel, Robert William and G. R. Elton, Which Road to the Past: Two Views of History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).
Two essays comparing the methods and merits of statistically-oriented "scientific" history and traditional history, one by a champion of quantification and the other by a skeptic.

Gonick, Larry and Woollcott Smith. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993).
An entertaining and cleverly illustrated, yet serious, jam-packed introduction to statistics—not a joke book.

Haskins, Loren and Kirk Jeffrey. Understanding Quantitative History (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1990).
A “user-friendly” introduction to the application of statistical methods in history that focuses on the basic concepts and skills necessary to read quantitative historical scholarship carefully and critically.

Hudson, Pat. History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (London: Arnold, 2000).
A comprehensive, sophisticated introduction to statistical methods for historians and the theoretical and empirical issues involved in doing quantitative history; examples drawn mainly from British sources.

Jarausch, Konrad H. and Kenneth A. Hardy, Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
A solid introduction to doing (not just reading about) quantitative history, especially research involving large databases; the information on computer applications is behind current practice.

Phillips, John L. How to Think about Statistics, 6th ed. (New York.: W.H. Freeman, 2000).
A highly accessible primer on fundamental concepts of social statistics, written for undergraduates by a psychologist; examples are drawn from social sciences other than history.

Swierenga, Robert P., ed. Quantification in American History: Theory and Research (New York: Atheneum, 1970).
A collection of early essays on quantitative approaches to American history; includes discussions of methodology, an influential critique of quantification, and several examples of political, economic, and social history.