Title: Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies®
Description: 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 want  Excel tricks -- find out what's built into the program to help you work with Excel formulas   Playing with worksheets -- get acquainted with the worksheet functions for each step  Graphic displays -- present your data as pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, or scatter plots  What's normal? -- understand normal distribution and probability  Hyping hypotheses -- learn to use hypothesis testing with means and variables  When regression is progress -- discover when and how to use regression for forecasting  What are the odds -- work with probability, random variables, and binomial distribution    Open the book and find:    Ten statistical and graphical tips and traps  The difference between descriptive and inferential statistics  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
Subjects: Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Microsoft excel (computer program), Statistics, data processing, Electronic spreadsheets