Instructor's Supplements

IRCD (IM/TB) to accompany Basic Statistics for Business and Economics 0073217824: Lets instructors access PowerPoint slides, text exhibits, the EZ Test Test Bank, an easy-to-use test generating software system, and the Instructor’s Manual with a simple mouse click. Drawing from this immense set of resources, instructors can easily prepare custom lectures, even editing and importing their own material.

Instructor’s Manual: Contains the complete solutions to all exercises, as well as the exercises in the Study Guide. Also included are syllabi samples. PowerPoint Electronic Slides: Included on both the student and instructor CD-ROMs. Over 450 full-color slides include chapter objectives, definitions of key terms, graphics, and additional examples. Students may use them as a chapter review tool, or as a source of additional solved examples. Instructors can use them to enhance their lecture and add additional material of their own.

Test Bank: Developed by Samuel Wathen contains over 2,300 multiple choice, true/false, and short-answer questions and problems. The answers to all questions are given, along with a rating of the level of difficulty and what chapter goal the questions tests. The EZ Test electronic version of the Test Bank is available on the Instructor’s CD-ROM.

Instructor's Edition to accompany Basic Statistics for Business and Economics, 0073217840

Student's Supplements

Study Guide to accompany Basic Statistics for Business and Economics, 0073217816: Comprehensive and written by Kathleen Whitcomb. Includes goals, a 2 to 4 page chapter review, glossary, step-by-step solved problems, boxed drill exercises (with answers at end of study guide), and a chapter assignment including multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blank, and open ended problems, all in a "tear out" and turn in format.

Student CD-Rom to accompany Basic Statistics for Business and Economics, 0073217808: 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 Internet 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 10.1, an Excel add-in. 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, 2.2, 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.