TextbookCosts: Textbook Costs
Description
Prices for textbooks for different courses
Format
A data frame 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
Source
Bookstore online siteDetails
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.