You too can understand the statistics of life, even if you'remath-challenged!
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
Computer-Ratgeber End-User Computing Microsoft Excel Statistics Statistik