Required Resources

Texts

Please note: Either of these texts may not be available until the second week of class.
  • Applied Statistics in Business and Economics, 2d edition Doane and Seward, McGraw-Hill, 2008, Custom Version with CD. This book is available at the bookstores. The title on the cover will be Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics--E370
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    • Pocket Dictionary of Statistics, Sahai & Khurshid, McGraw-Hill, 2002, reprinted by ClassPak Publishing.

    Workbooks
  • E370 Introduction to Statistics for Economics and Business 2009-2010--Course Workbook, Mary Elizabeth Camp, Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2009.
     
  • E370 Introduction to Statistics for Economics and Business 2009-2010-- Laboratory Manual, Mary Elizabeth Camp, ed., Hayden-McNeil Publishing, 2009.
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    Software

    Microsoft Excel 2007. This program is available through the Windows menu in any of the UITS clusters. Statistical applications of EXCEL will be used in this class. Knowledge of these EXCEL applications will be required for exams, lab tests and home work assignments. Note that Office 2007 is available for free via IUWare. Go to the IUB web site and click on computers and go from there.

    All University computer labs have been updated with Office 2007. If you have Office 2003, it is important to note that the Office 2007 version of Excel uses new document formats which cannot be read by earlier versions of Office. To solve this problem, please install the file compatibility patch which allows earlier versions of Office to use the new format. This patch can be accessed at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx.

    Recommended Texts:
    • The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Larry Gonick & Wolcott Smith, HarperCollins, 1993. A "serious" statistics text which focuses on intuition and meaning of concepts.