Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

You too can understand the statistics of life, even if you're math-challenged! What do you need to calculate? Manufacturing output? A curve for test scores? Sports stats? You and Excel can do it, and this non-intimidating guide shows you how. It demystifies the different types of statistics, how Excel functions and formulas work, the meaning of means and medians, how to interpret your figures, and more — in plain English. Getting there — learn how variables, samples, and probability are used to get the information you want Excel tricks — find out what's built into the program to help you work with Excel formulas Playing with worksheets — get acquainted with the worksheet functions for each step Graphic displays — present your data as pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, or scatter plots What's normal? — understand normal distribution and probability Hyping hypotheses — learn to use hypothesis testing with means and variables When regression is progress — discover when and how to use regression for forecasting What are the odds — work with probability, random variables, and binomial distribution Open the book and find: Ten statistical and graphical tips and traps The difference between descriptive and inferential statistics Why graphs are good How to measure variations What standard scores are and why they're used When to use two-sample hypothesis testing How to use correlations Different ways of working with probability

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Title of ebook: Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470535417
parent-ISBN: 9780470454060
Publisher: For Dummies
Pages: 504
Published: 04-2009
Released online for download: 04-29-2009
Author of eBook: Joseph, Schmuller Ph.D.,

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Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

Chapter One

Evaluating Data in the Real World

In This Chapter

* Introducing statistical concepts

* Generalizing from samples to populations

* Getting into probability

* Making decisions

* New features in Excel 2007

* Understanding important Excel Fundamentals

* New features in this edition

The field of statistics is all about decision-making - decision-making based on groups of numbers. Statisticians constantly ask questions: What do the numbers tell us? What are the trends? What predictions can we make? What conclusions can we draw?

To answer these questions, statisticians have developed an impressive array of analytical tools. These tools help us to make sense of the mountains of data that are out there waiting for us to delve into, and to understand the numbers we generate in the course of our own work.

The Statistical (And Related) Notions You Just Have to Know

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