Choosing Among Computational Software Tools to Enhance Learning in Introductory Business Statistics

摘要

AACSB has now mandated that analytics be integrated into the undergraduate businesscurriculum. Given that the subject of statistics provides the underpinnings of the developingdiscipline of business analytics, this article focuses on effective course deliveryaimed at enhancing the learning of introductory business statistics in the modern worldof big data. To this end, the choice and use of computational software tools are essentialto the successful delivery of the course. A set of seven competing tools are comparedand contrasted, their advantages and disadvantages are discussed, and a link is providedto show demonstrations of needed instructions and resulting output.