Elementary Statistics
by Larry A. Morgan, Mario F. Triola · first published 2000
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…such a course which was typically taken by social science majors who needed some statistics in their fields. (I never taught it.) The prereq was just a little algebra. A typical text was Mario Triola's "Elementary Statistics" (see here for the table of contents: https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Statistics-13th-Mario-Trio...). The students used Minitab as part of the course. But we also had prob & stat courses which used…
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