Class Website Ready to Go for Summer 09 8-Week Session

To find the course homepage, please go to my faculty website www.uta.edu/faculty/hansz and click on the link for REAE 5350.  Make sure you download the syllabus, print-out, and bring to our first class on Wednesday, June 3rd at 5:30 PM.  You will also probably want to bring a print-out of the class notes (also on the course homepage) to the first class.

Class Text for Summer 2009

The recommended textbook is at the UTA bookstore.  The book is titled:

Complete Business Statistics 7th edition by Aczel and Sounderpandian (McGraw-Hill Irwin).

However, there are many good statistics textbooks on the market and I have used a variety of textbook for the course in the past.  If you can match the topics and material that we will cover to another statistics textbook, you are welcome to use it at your own risk.

I would like to suggest two other books you might consider looking at, especially if you have a fear of statistics and regression:

Statistics for People Who Think They Hate Statistics 3rd edition by Salkind (Sage).

Regression Basics 2nd edition by Kahane (Sage).

Also, there is a Statistics for Dummies book that isn't a bad read but I didn't want to insult anyone.

Finally, you will need access to the statistical software package called SPSS.  The University has one computer lab with SPSS and the BookStore and UTA Software Store sell student versions of this software.  Students have also found statistics books and software on the Internet.