While many instructors are aware of the "Literary Digest" 1936 poll as an example of biased sampling methods, this article details potential further explorations for the "Digest's" 1924-1936 quadrennial U.S. presidential election polls. Potential activities range from lessons in data acquisition, cleaning, and validation, to…

Through a series of explorations, this article will demonstrate how the Kentucky Derby winning times dataset provides various opportunities for introductory and advanced topics, from data processing to model building. Although the final goal may be a prediction interval, the dataset is rich enough for it to appear in several places in an…

On the basis of a survey of U.S. undergraduate business schools and industry, a study defined the curricular content (knowledge and skills) in electronic data processing (EDP) and statistical sampling (SS) needed to prepare the accounting study to audit computerized accounting systems. (CT)