Welcome! You are involved in
a project organized between Center
for Small Towns staff and University of Minnesota,
Morris faculty in the Statistics
Department. Two courses, Statistics 1601: Introduction to Statistics
and Statistics 2601: Statistical Methods, are now integrated with a civic
engagement component that allows for the survey, analysis, research and
reporting of rural statistical indicators. As a member of these introductory
courses, you will be involved in the compilation of variables, the analysis of
rural indicators, and the creation of a data book for people working in communities
and counties across West Central Minnesota.
This workbook will be used as a supplement for The Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
(4th ed) by Dr. David S. Moore and Dr.
George P. McCabe. This workbook will follow the textbook and provide
problem sets for each chapter. The primary data source for this workbook
is the 2000 US Census. The Census Bureau and the Minnesota Planning data repository
web sites, which contain a wealth of data about the area, will be used throughout
these problem sets.
This supplement has been created and edited by Dr. Engin Sungur, Benjamin Winchester, and David Borgerding
at the Center for Small Towns, University
of Minnesota, Morris, 600 E. 4th Street, Morris, MN, 56267. Call 320-589-6451
for more information.
