Software Reviews : The Statistics Package Reviewed by: Ralph da Costa Nunez,Columbia University Publisher: Micro Power and Light Co.,12820 Hillcrest Rd.,Suite 224,Dallas,TX 75230 (telephone: [phone]) Year of Publication: 1981 Materials: Six disks. Price: $149.95 Machine Specificity: Apple II series. System Requirements: None special. Effectiveness: Fair User-Friendliness: Good Documentation: Poor

Abstract

This package clearly does not live up to the promises of the publisher. Specifically, rather than being "a complete introductory course," this package is a most basic introduction to the elementary principles of statistics. With the exception of a discussion of correlation and regression equations, it does little to take the user beyond the characteristics of mean, median, mode, and standard deviations. It is not recommended for the college level, but would better serve the advanced high school student.