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File description (ExcelTutorial.doc) - This Excel tutorial is a Word document with embedded spreadsheets.It provides a simple way to improve your spreadsheet skills, including your efficiencyin doing simple repetitive tasks. It will work with any version of Excel from version 97 on.

File description (statdataset.zip) - Bruce Trumbo's Learning Statistics with Real Data Unit 3: Do you want to use real data for analysis in your statistics course? Do youhave trouble finding meaty data sets for use in class? Please feel free touse this data set on lead absorption in children whose parents worked at afactory in Oklahoma. We have included both the activity to perform, as wellas the Minitab and txt files for the data.

Gary McClelland is able to bring statistical concepts to life by using Java appletsin his Seeing Statistics product. This applet, taken from unit 12 of his product,shows students how to fit a regression line. Please feel free to use it in class whenyou cover regression this term. If you would like to learn more about these applets,please visit www.seeingstatistics.com.

Why do statisticians need to develop their communication skills? Take a look at what happens when they do and when they don't. In these two segments, the statistician is talking to a client about a sampling plan for a survey. What do you think about the statistician's communication skills in these segments? In the second segment, the statistician has used several skills that enable her to be more effective in her communication. Can you identify them?

Most analytical decisions are made in the face of uncertainties which may be hard to quantify. The probability wheel assists people in assessing the probability of an uncertain outcome based on their personal beliefs. Click on this link to experiment with one of the helpful tools that you will find in Decision Making with Insight.

Because MINITAB Student Version was built before Windows 2000 and Windows XP, here are some tips to try if you have difficulty installing on these newer operating systems. Thanks to Patricia Kuby of Monroe Community College.