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KEY BENEFIT: Elementary Statistics Using Excel, Fourth Edition, offers a complete introduction to basic statistics, featuring extensive instruction on the use of Excel spreadsheets for data analysis. Extensive Excel® instructions are provided along with typical displays of results, as well as information about Excel's limitations and alternative approaches to problem-solving. Real data in many examples help readers see the prevalence of statistics in the real world.
KEY TOPICS: Introduction to Statistics; Summarizing and Graphing Data; Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data; Probability; Probability Distributions; Normal Probability Distributions; Estimates and Sample Sizes; Hypothesis Testing; Inferences from Two Samples; Correlation and Regression; Multinomial Experiments and Contingency Tables; Analysis of Variance; Nonparametric Statistics; Statistical Process Control; Projects, Procedures, Perspectives
MARKET: for all readers interested in statistics
Synopsis
Elementary Statistics Using Excel, Fourth Edition, offers a complete introduction to basic statistics, featuring extensive instruction on the use of Excel spreadsheets for data analysis. Extensive Excel® instructions are provided along with typical displays of results, as well as information about Excel's limitations and alternative approaches to problem-solving. Real data in many examples help readers see the prevalence of statistics in the real world.
The CD-ROM included with each copy of the book contains: DDXL (Version 2.0), a software add-in that enhances and expands the capability of Excel, and Appendix B data sets in the form of Excel workbooks.
Note: The ISBN above is just the Book/CD -- if you want the Bk/CD and Access Card order the ISBN below:
ISBN 0321824490 / 9780321824493 Elementary Statistics Using Excel plus MyStatLab Student Access Kit
Package consists of:
0321564960 / 9780321564962 Elementary Statistics Using Excel
0321694635 / 9780321694638 MyStatLab -- Valuepack Access Card
Synopsis
0321824490 / 9780321824493 Elementary Statistics Using Excel plus MyStatLab Student Access Kit
Package consists of:
0321564960 / 9780321564962 Elementary Statistics Using Excel
0321694635 / 9780321694638 MyStatLab -- Valuepack Access Card
About the Author
Mario F. Triola is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Dutchess Community College, where he has taught statistics for over 30 years. Marty is the author of Essentials of Statistics, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, Elementary Statistics Using the Graphing Calculator, and he is a co-author of Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life and Business Statistics. He has written several manuals and workbooks for technology supporting statistics education. Outside of the classroom, Marty has been a speaker at many conferences and colleges. His consulting work includes the design of casino slot machines and fishing rods, and he has worked with attorneys in determining probabilities in paternity lawsuits, identifying salary inequities based on gender, analyzing disputed election results, analyzing medical data, and analyzing medical school surveys. Marty has testified as an expert witness in New York State Supreme Court. The Text and Academic Authors Association has awarded Mario F. Triola a "Texty" for Excellence for his work on Elementary Statistics.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Statistics
2. Summarizing and Graphing Data
3. Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data
4. Probability
5. Probability Distributions
6. Normal Probability Distributions
7. Estimates and Sample Sizes
8. Hypothesis Testing
9. Inferences from Two Samples
10. Correlation and Regression
11. Multinomial Experiments and Contingency Tables
12. Analysis of Variance
13. Nonparametric Statistics
14. Statistical Process Control
15. Projects, Procedures, Perspectives