Economics 250:
Introduction to Statistics
Resources
1. Book
The key resource is: Statistics
for Business and Economics by
Newbold, Carlson and Thorne (Pearson Publishing,
2010).
The Custom Edition is
available in the campus bookstore.
The book contains a few type-setting
and proof-reading errors. It will come
with a separate, correction sheet listing those
errors.
2. Calculator
You need an approved hand
calculator. In Economics, the approved calculators are
those with blue or gold stickers or the Casio 991.
3. Software
To graph or plot data, you can use
Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft Office is installed on public computing sites,
especially Mackintosh-Corry Hall B111 or E209.
You also can use Calc, the
spreadsheet component of OpenOffice.
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