Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

Book Description:

Take the mystery out of statistical terms and put Excel to work!

If you need to create and interpret statistics in business or classroom settings, this easy-to-use guide is just what you need. It shows you how to use Excel’s powerful tools for statistical analysis, even if you’ve never taken a course in statistics. Learn the meaning of terms like mean and median, margin of error, standard deviation, and permutations, and discover how to interpret the statistics of everyday life. You’ll learn to use Excel formulas, charts, PivotTables, and other tools to make sense of everything from sports stats to medical correlations.
Statistics have a reputation for being challenging and math-intensive; this friendly guide makes statistical analysis with Excel easy to understand
Explains how to use Excel to crunch numbers and interpret the statistics of everyday life: sales figures, gambling odds, sports stats, a grading curve, and much more
Covers formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends, and correlations
Clarifies statistical terms such as median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, correlations, and permutations

Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 3rd Edition helps you make sense of statistics and use Excel’s statistical analysis tools in your daily life.

From the Back Cover
Learn to:
Understand common statistical terms
Interpret sales figures, gambling odds, sports stats, and more
Use Excel formulas, functions, charts, and PivotTables
Develop a grading curve or medical correlations

Forget the mumbo-jumbo!

Statistical analysis with Excel can be easy — and useful, too

Stunned by statistics? Exhausted by Excel? Relax! This book makes it easy to learn statistical analysis and actually use it to interpret the statistics of everyday life. Take your Excel knowledge to a new level as you discover how to use Excel’s perfectly designed tools to analyze and understand data, predict trends, make decisions, and much more.
The scoop on stats — learn about statistical concepts such as samples and populations, variables, and probability
New Excel stuff — check out naming conventions, new functions, and other elements that are different in Excel 2013
Striking sparks — discover the cool new “sparklines” feature that lets you quickly create small graphs to illustrate data trends
Means to an end — understand means, medians, and modes and the worksheet functions associated with them
Reasonable estimation — work with sampling distributions for estimation and understand the all-important Central Limit Theorem
It’s probable — explore Excel’s rich set of built-in capabilities for understanding and applying probability
Send in the data — see how to import data from databases, the web, or from text

Open the book and find:
A roundup of new Excel capabilities
Different types of hypothesis testing
Tools and instructions just for Mac users
What ANOVA means and why you must know
Statistical and graphical tips and traps
How Excel can pinch-hit as a database
What to do with random variables
Appendixes that delve into specific tools and tricks

Book Details
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 3rd Edition (April 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1118464311
ISBN-13: 978-1118464311