Software

The Statistics program at Elon uses SAS© as its primary statistical computing software. R© is also used in upper level statistics courses.

Textbooks

The following is the past book information for the Statistics courses. Please be sure to consult the bookstore or the instructor for the most up to date information on textbooks.

Course Name Text
STS 212/MTH 220: Statistics in Application The Statistical Sleuth (3rd Edition), by F.L. Ramsey, and D.W. Schafer (Cengage Learning, 2013)
STS 213: Survey Sampling Methods Elementary Survey Sampling (7th edition), by Richard L. Scheaffer, William Mendenhall III, R. Lyman Ott and Kenneth G. Gerow (Cengage Learning, 2012)
STS 232: Statistical Modeling A Second Course in Statistics: Regression Analysis(7th edition), by William Mendenhall and Terry T. Sincich (Pearson, 2013)
STS 256: Applied Nonparametric Statistics Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics, by James J. Higgins. (Duxbury, 2004)
STS 325: Design & Analysis of Experiments Experiments Introduction to Design and Analysis of Experiments, by George Cobb (Key College Publishing, 1998)
STS 327: Statistical Computing The Little SAS Book: A Primer (5th edition), by Lora .D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter (SAS Institute, 2012)
STS 341/MTH 329: Probability Theory and Statistics A Course in Probability, by Neil A. Weiss, (Pearson, 2005)
STS 342: Statistical Theory John E. Freund’s Mathematical Statistics with Applications (8th edition), by Irwin Miller and Maryless Miller (Pearson, 2014)