Description
This book is a guide to statistical analysis with Excel. It covers topics such as using Excel to analyze and understand data, applying statistical analysis to predict trends and make decisions, interpreting sales figures, gambling odds, and sports stats, developing a grading curve or medical correlations, and more. The book is written in an easy-to-follow format and assumes no prior knowledge of statistics or Excel.
There's nothing random about itthis is the book on statistical analysis with Excel Stunned by statistics? Exhausted by Excel? Relax!
Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 4th Edition shows you how to use the world's most popular spreadsheet program to crunch numbers and interpret statisticseven if you've never taken a statistics or advanced math course. In no time, you'll learn to use Excel to create and translate statistics in everyday life, understand common statistical terms, and improve your classroom or professional skills. Statistics has a reputation for being a challenging, math-intensive pursuitbut it doesn't have to make your palms sweat. Using a minimum of equations and assuming no prior knowledge of statistics or Excel, this hands-on guide cuts through the jargon and shows you how to make sense of formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, and much more.
- Use Excel's tools to analyze and understand data
- Apply statistical analysis to predict trends and make decisions
- Interpret sales figures, gambling odds, and sports stats
- Develop a grading curve or medical correlations
Forget the mumbo jumbo! This guide shows you that statistical analysis with Excel can be easy, fun, and useful!