Software Reviews : Exploring Statistics with the IBM PC (Textbook by David P. Doane) Staff review Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,Reading,MA 01867 (telephone : [phone]) Date of Publication: 1985 Materials: Copy-protected EXPLORE program diskette,database diskette,267-page softcover book Price: $39.95;or $14.95 for text alone;or $29.95 for disks alone Machine Specificity: IBM PC System Requirements: 64K memory,1 disk drive,DOS 1.0-2.0;second disk drive and printer recommended Effectiveness: Excellent User-Friendliness: Excellent Documentation: Excellent

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Summary: This textbook-disk package is an example of the new trend toward less expensive courseware suitable for sale in university bookstores. Prepared by a professor at the School of Economics and Management at Oakland University, this package comes with a database on the 50 states and an economic time-series database for 1960-1983 plus statistical routines adequate for most instructional purposes. The databases contain some sociopolitical variables of interest outside economics.