Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies
Authors: Joseph Schmuller
ISBN-10: 1119271150
ISBN-13: 9781119271154
Edition 版次: 4
Publication Date 出版日期: 2016-07-25
Print Length 页数: 560 pages
Book Description
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There’s nothing random about it—this 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 statistics—even 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 pursuit—but 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!
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started with Statistical Analysis with Excel: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Chapter 1: Evaluating Data in the Real World
Chapter 2: Understanding Excel’s Statistical Capabilities
Part 2: Describing Data
Chapter 3: Show and Tell: Graphing Data
PChapter 4: Finding Your Center
Chapter 5: Deviating from the Average
Chapter 6: Meeting Standards and Standings
Chapter 7: Summarizing It All
Chapter 8: What’s Normal?
Part 3: Drawing Conclusions from Data
Chapter 9: The Confidence Game: Estimation
Chapter 10: One-Sample Hypothesis Testing
PChapter 11: Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 12: Testing More Than Two Samples
Chapter 13: Slightly More Complicated Testing
Chapter 14: Regression: Linear and Multiple
Chapter 15: Correlation: The Rise and Fall of Relationships
Chapter 16: It’s About Time
Chapter 17: Non-Parametric Statistics
Part 4: Probability
PChapter 18: Introducing Probability
Chapter 19: More on Probability
Chapter 20: A Career in Modeling
Part 5: The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: Ten Statistical and Graphical Tips and Traps
Chapter 22: Ten Things (Twelve,Actually)That Just Didn’t Fit in Any Other Chapter
Appendix A: When Your Worksheet Is a Database
Appendix B: The Analysis of Covariance
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