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Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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INSTRUCTOR'S RESOURCE CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-07-319223-6) — provides electronic versions of important text content and solutions for use in preparing your assignments, exams, and classroom presentations.
Instructor's Guide — helps instructors to easily transition to teaching from our text. This guide, also delivered electronically via our Online Learning Center, offers the following resources:
Correlation Guide matching the organization and coverage in our text to other popular engineering statistics textbooks.
Suggested Syllabi providing a useful roadmap for how to teach different versions of this course
PowerPoint Lecture Notes for each chapter of the text which can be customized to fit your classroom presentation needs.
All text data sets in numerous file formats (ASCII comma delimited, ASCII tab delimited, MINITAB, Excel, SAS, and SPSS).
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Detailed solutions to all text exercises delivered in our COSMOS Solutions Manual Organization System. Available to instructors only, COSMOS is a database management tool geared towards assembling and distributing homework assignments, tests, and quizzes. COSMOS helps you quickly find solutions and also keeps a record of problems assigned to avoid duplication in subsequent semesters.
Detailed solutions to all text exercises delivered in PDF files by chapter.
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Student Supplements
STUDENT RESOURCES CD-ROM — packaged free with the text, this CD offers the following resources:
All text data sets in numerous file formats (ASCII comma delimited, ASCII tab delimited, MINITAB, Excel, SAS, and SPSS).
Java Applets created specifically for this calculus-based course and based on text content.
Simulation Applets, created to reinforce the excellent text coverage of simulation methods.
Quizzes, with an unlimited number of exercises, allow students as much practice as needed.
STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL (ISBN: 0-07-310959-2) — The Student's Solutions Manual for use with Statistics for Engineers and Scientists provides detailed solutions to all odd-numbered exercises in the book.
MINITAB 14 STUDENT VERSION — the student version of this professional software is available packaged with Statistics for Engineers and Scientists. This package also provides a Minitab manual with information on data and file management, conducting various statistical analyses, and creating presentation-style graphics.
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