Box Sampler Installation
Description:
Box Sampler is a powerful laboratory tool for sampling from a variety of populations and running dynamic simulations. Box Sampler is a spreadsheet add-in and uses the worksheet interface as a platform. It is useful for doing simulation and resampling operations in probability and statistics.
Download Instructions:
Box Sampler is a required software tool for the purpose of this course. You need to download and install Box Sampler correctly, in order to run the exercises and other Excel-based activities.
The ideal way to download is to save the installable to your local hard disk first. Here is how:
Click the Right button of the mouse on the link above, and choose the 'Save Target As...' option to download the Box Sampler setup to your local hard disk.
Click Here and specify the path to download the Box Sampler setup.
Once you are done with download, you will have a file called BoxSamplerInstall.exe at the location where you saved the download.
Installing Box Sampler:
To Install Box Sampler, run the downloaded BoxSamplerInstall.exe and follow the instruction which appear on the screen. The Box Sampler setup will copy the required files on your computer in the specified directory.
Using Box Sampler:
After installing Box Sampler, you can run it from your Start menu. Be sure to "enable macros" when you get the security warning; do not set security to the "high" level.
Separate documentation is available to explain effective usage of Box Sampler.
Click here to go to Box Sampler User Documentation.
Important instruction for Internet Explorer Users:
During your usage of this course, you will be asked to open a number of Microsoft Excel® workbooks. When an Excel file is opened from a web page hyperlink, Internet Explorer normally opens it in its own window, instead of invoking Microsoft Excel. This is true for other Microsoft Office documents too (Microsoft Word® and PowerPoint® documents).
This needs to be changed by adjusting settings on your computer.
Click here for details of how to change settings. You must make this change before beginning to use the Excel file resources on this website.