Synopses & Reviews
Statistical skills are helpful in everyday life, especially in business and classroom settings. For example, you can use statistics to evaluate manufacturing output or “ curve” test scores. "Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies will show readers how to use the world’ s most popular spreadsheet program to crunch the numbers and interpret statistics— even if they haven’ t taken a statistics or advanced math course. Statistics have a reputation for being a challenging, math intensive pursuit. Using plain English and a minimum of equations, this book will get readers understanding statistics quickly and painlessly.
Veteran Excel author Curtis Frye will cover formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, and much more. By the end of the book readers will understand statistical terms such as median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, permutations and correlations. Although this book was written on Excel 2003, the author’ s techniques can be done with earlier versions of Excel too.
Book News Annotation:
Schmuller's (U. of North Florida) addition to the For Dummies series
is an introduction to using Excel's statistical tools. He discusses
how to use and graph data; probability; means, median and averages;
hypotheses and testing; correlation; and modeling. In addition, he
explains using databases in Excel. There is no bibliography.
Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
This book makes it easy to crunch numbers and interpret statistics with Excel, even for the math-challenged Using plain English and real-life examples, the author provides information that will help readers improve their performance on the job or in the classroom Covers formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, as well as statistical terms like median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, permutations, and correlations-all using Excel
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