TextbookCosts {Lock5Data}

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 required
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