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Per a previous message for William D. Hart, the new MYSTAT bundle with
manual arrived here last week. The "textbook" is a monograph-length
paperback, and -- upon cursory examination -- looks good. I teach
Marketing Research to students who have already studied statistics ...
and don't remember a thing that they should have learned, and may never
have understood to begin with. The new book (by Hale? of Penn State?)
appears to give very straight-forward and clear explanations of what
applied data analysis is about: what are you trying to do? what statistics
should you use? how do you program that stat in MYSTAT? what does the
output mean? I have great hopes for it -- but won't be able to test my
hypothesis until later this term, when the students, statistics and MYSTAT
collide.

BTW, I'm not clear on the actual price students would pay through some
university bookstores (like ours). In the past, when SYSTAT charged $5
(and this was **not** a voluntary contribution), our bookstore marked it
up to $7.50. The new Course Technology promotional material is unclear
whether $15 is their price to a bookstore, or the retail price of the
package. (I haven't bothered to call and ask, since it wouldn't affect
either my adoption decision or the bookstore's pricing policy.)

Additionally, the person originally asking about NYSTAT (which we all
assume is MYSTAT) should be told that the software is available in
both DOS and MACINTOSH versions. Mac users (I'm not one) tell me that
the Mac version is even easier to implement than I perceive the IBM
version to be (which is easy).  Also, version 2.0 was limited to 50
variables (can't remember if that's true of the new version 2.1), and
something like 25,000 cases.

Cordially,
Marcia Flicker
Fordham University