Students' Resources

Multiple choice questions

Dozens of practice questions for every chapter provide students with a valuable revision tool.

Crossword puzzles

Dozens of crossword puzzles based on chapter content provide a unique learning tool.

Glossary

An electronic glossary provides useful definitions of all key terms.

Learning objectives

Listed for each chapter, they help the student to monitor their understanding and progress through each chapter.

Web links

Carefully selected by the authors, dozens of web links provide valuable guidance on useful websites.

Excel 2007 update

A downloadable pdf with information about the new version of Microsoft Excel, Excel 2007. Please note this will open in a new window. Download as a Flashpaper file.

Other supplementary resources

A Microsoft® Excel Companion for Business Statistics, Third Edition

This manual/workbook provides step-by-step instructions for using Excel to solve most of the problems found in introductory business statistics.

Chapter 22: Sample Surveys

The PDF of Chapter 22: Sample Surveys provided on the textbook’s companion CD-Rom can also be downloaded here.

Tree Plan

TreePlan® helps you build a decision tree diagram in an Excel worksheet using dialog boxes.

TreePlan is an Excel add-in that allows you to build decision trees in Excel and can be used in conjunction with Statistics for Business and Economics. Both the software and the manual are included below. To download the software right-click on the treeplan.xla file. Please read the manual for installation and usage instructions.

Note: The Manual is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. This may be obtained free of charge from Adobe's web site at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html

Download TreePlan software here

Download TreePlan user's manual here

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