Information Theory Book price survey results

29 people filled in a survey at my information theory, pattern recognition, and neural networks lecture, Fri 7/3/03. All but one of them were students studying part III physics.

QUESTIONS

How many textbooks have you bought in the last 4 years?
Typical cost of books bought, per book (pounds)
What do you think a reasonable cover price would be for the book, Information theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms? (pounds)
What would you have been willing to pay for the textbook? (pounds)

ANSWERS

How many textbooks have you bought in the last 4 years?

numberbought MEDIAN=10

Typical cost of books bought, per book (pounds)

typicalprice MEDIAN=25

What do you think a reasonable cover price would be for the book, Information theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms? (pounds)

coverprice MEDIAN=25

What would you have been willing to pay for the textbook? (pounds)

wouldpay MEDIAN=25
David MacKay
Last modified: Fri Mar 7 13:08:19 2003