Student CD-ROM to accompany Basic Statistics for Business and Economics

Packaged free with all copies of the text. Features chapter quizzes, PowerPoint slides, data files (in MINITAB and Excel formats) for the large datasets and exercises, video clips, practice problems, ScreenCam tutorials, and Inter net links to the text website and other online statistics resources. Also included is Megastat for Excel by J.B. Orris of Butler University. MegaStat version 9.0, an Excel add-in, includes routines for nonparametrics, time series, regression modeling, control charts, and box plots. Help files are built in and an introductory users manual is also included on the CD-ROM.Also, included free on the student CD-ROM is Visual Statistics, 2.0, by Doane, Mathieson, and Tracy. This package of 21 software programs and hundreds of data files and examples is designed for teaching and learning basic statistics. The modules of Visual Statistics provide an interactive, highly graphical, experimental format in which to explore statistics. The software and worktext promote active learning through competency building exercises, individual and team projects, and built-in databases. Over 400 datasets from business settings are included within the package, and the Visual Statistics worktext in electronic files. “ScreenCam Tutorials” for Excel, MegaStat for Excel, and MINITAB are also included on the Student CD-ROM. These movie files provide your students with their own short introduction to using these packages, complete with narration. These are intended to help students see step by step how to use these tools for solving problems and analyzing data.

Douglas A. Lind earned his B.S. in Business from Bowling Green State University, and his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Toledo. He is Emeritus Professor at Coastal Carolina University and the University of Toledo. Dr. Lind is a co-author of Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics with the late Robert D. Mason and William G. Marchal. He has more than 38 years of college teaching experience, including teaching statistics at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels, as well as graduate courses in statistics and research methods. Dr. Lind is a past recipient of the Tony DeJute Outstanding Teacher Award.