Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies (eBook)
504 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-53541-7 (ISBN)
What do you need to calculate? Manufacturing output? A curve fortest scores? Sports stats? You and Excel can do it, and thisnon-intimidating guide shows you how. It demystifies the differenttypes of statistics, how Excel functions and formulas work, themeaning of means and medians, how to interpret your figures, andmore -- in plain English.
* Getting there -- learn how variables, samples, andprobability are used to get the information you want
* Excel tricks -- find out what's built into the program tohelp you work with Excel formulas
* Playing with worksheets -- get acquainted with the worksheetfunctions for each step
* Graphic displays -- present your data as pie graphs, bargraphs, line graphs, or scatter plots
* What's normal? -- understand normal distribution andprobability
* Hyping hypotheses -- learn to use hypothesis testing withmeans and variables
* When regression is progress -- discover when and how to useregression for forecasting
* What are the odds -- work with probability, randomvariables, and binomial distribution
Open the book and find:
* Ten statistical and graphical tips and traps
* The difference between descriptive and inferentialstatistics
* 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
Joseph Schmuller, PhD, is a technical architect at Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Florida. A former member of the American Statistical Association, he has taught statistics at the undergraduate, honors undergraduate, and graduate levels, and has been honored with an award for excellence in teaching.
Introduction.
Part I: Statistics and Excel: A Marriage Made inHeaven.
Chapter 1: Evaluating Data in the Real World.
Chapter 2: Understanding Excel's StatisticalCapabilities.
Part II: Describing Data.
Chapter 3: Show and Tell: Graphing Data.
Chapter 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 III: Drawing Conclusions from Data.
Chapter 9: The Confi dence Game: Estimation.
Chapter 10: One-Sample Hypothesis Testing.
Chapter 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.
Part IV: Working with Probability.
Chapter 16: Introducing Probability.
Chapter 17: More on Probability.
Chapter 18: A Career in Modeling.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 19: Ten Statistical and Graphical Tips and Traps.
Chapter 20: Ten Things (Twelve, Actually) That Didn't Fitin Any Other Chapter.
Appendix A: When Your Worksheet Is a Database.
Appendix B: The Analysis of Covariance.
Appendix C: Of Stems, Leaves, Boxes, Whiskers, andSmoothies.
Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.5.2009 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik | |
| Schlagworte | Computer-Ratgeber • End-User Computing • Microsoft Excel • Statistics • Statistik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-53541-5 / 0470535415 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-53541-7 / 9780470535417 |
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