Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

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You too can understand the statistics of life, even if you're math-challenged!What do you need to calculate? Manufacturing output? A curve for test scores? Sports stats? You and Excel can do it, and this non-intimidating guide shows you how. It demystifies the different types of statistics, how Excel functions and formulas work, the meaning of means and medians, how to interpret your figures, and more - in plain English.Getting there - learn how variables, samples, and probability are used to get the information you wantExcel tricks - find out what's built into the program to help you work with Excel formulasPlaying with worksheets - get acquainted with the worksheet functions for each stepGraphic displays - present your data as pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, or scatter plotsWhat's normal? - understand normal distribution and probabilityHyping hypotheses - learn to use hypothesis testing with means and variablesWhen regression is progress - discover when and how to use regression for forecastingWhat are the odds - work with probability, random variables, and binomial distributionOpen the book and find:Ten statistical and graphical tips and trapsThe difference between descriptive and inferential statisticsWhy graphs are goodHow to measure variationsWhat standard scores are and why they're usedWhen to use two-sample hypothesis testingHow to use correlationsDifferent ways of working with probability