Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

Joseph Schmuller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2016 | 4th Edition
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-119-27115-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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!

Autor

Joseph Schmuller, PhD, is a Research Scholar at the University of North Florida. He is a former member of the American Statistical Association and has taught statistics at the undergraduate, honors undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Inhalt

Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Statistical Analysis with Excel: A Marriage Made in Heaven 7 CHAPTER 1: Evaluating Data in the Real World 9 CHAPTER 2: Understanding Excel s Statistical Capabilities 31 Part 2: Describing Data 61 CHAPTER 3: Show and Tell: Graphing Data 63 CHAPTER 4: Finding Your Center 101 CHAPTER 5: Deviating from the Average 117 CHAPTER 6: Meeting Standards and Standings 135 CHAPTER 7: Summarizing It All 151 CHAPTER 8: What s Normal? 171 Part 3: Drawing Conclusions from Data 183 CHAPTER 9: The Confidence Game: Estimation 185 CHAPTER 10: One-Sample Hypothesis Testing 199 CHAPTER 11: Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing 217 CHAPTER 12: Testing More Than Two Samples 249 CHAPTER 13: Slightly More Complicated Testing 275 CHAPTER 14: Regression: Linear and Multiple 295 CHAPTER 15: Correlation: The Rise and Fall of Relationships 331 CHAPTER 16: It s About Time 351 CHAPTER 17: Non-Parametric Statistics 363 Part 4: Probability 377 CHAPTER 18: Introducing Probability 379 CHAPTER 19: More on Probability 403 CHAPTER 20: A Career in Modeling 417 Part 5: The Part of Tens 437 CHAPTER 21: Ten Statistical and Graphical Tips and Traps 439 CHAPTER 22: Ten Things (Twelve, Actually) That Just Didn t Fit in Any Other Chapter 445 APPENDIX A: When Your Worksheet Is a Database 471 APPENDIX B: The Analysis of Covariance 487 Index 501

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 188 x 233 mm
• Gewicht: 750 g
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• ISBN-10: 1-119-27115-0 / 1119271150
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-27115-4 / 9781119271154
• Zustand: Neuware