TextbookCosts: Textbook Costs

Description Format Details Source

Description

Prices for textbooks for different courses

Format

A dataset with 40 observations on the following 3 variables.

Field General discipline of the course: Arts, Humanities, NaturalScience, or SocialScience
Books Number of books requiired
Cost Total cost (in dollars) for required books

Details

Data are from samples of ten courses in each of four disciplines at a liberal arts college. For each course the bookstore's website lists the required texts(s) and costs. Data were collected for the Fall 2011 semester.

Source

Bookstore online site


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