Statistical Analysis with
Excel For Dummies, 3rd EditionJoseph Schmuller
ISBN: 978-1-118-46431-1
528 pages
April 2013

US $29.99

Take the mystery out of statistical terms and put Excel to work! If you need to create and interpret statistics in business or classroom settings, this easy-to-use guide is just what you need. It shows you how to use Excel's powerful tools for statistical analysis, even if you've never taken a course in statistics. Learn the meaning of terms like mean and median, margin of error, standard deviation, and permutations, and discover how to interpret the statistics of everyday life. You'll learn to use Excel formulas, charts, PivotTables, and other tools to make sense of everything from sports stats to medical correlations.

• Statistics have a reputation for being challenging and math-intensive; this friendly guide makes statistical analysis with Excel easy to understand
• Explains how to use Excel to crunch numbers and interpret the statistics of everyday life: sales figures, gambling odds, sports stats, a grading curve, and much more
• Covers formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends, and correlations
• Clarifies statistical terms such as median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, correlations, and permutations
  

Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 3rd Edition helps you make sense of statistics and use Excel's statistical analysis tools in your daily life.

Table of Contents
Introduction  1
Part I: Getting Started with Statistical Analysis with Excel  7
Chapter 1: Evaluating Data in the Real World 9
Chapter 2: Understanding Excel’s Statistical Capabilities 31
Part II: Describing Data  63
Chapter 3: Show and Tell: Graphing Data 65
Chapter 4: Finding Your Center 97
Chapter 5: Deviating from the Average 113
Chapter 6: Meeting Standards and Standings 131
Chapter 7: Summarizing It All 147
Chapter 8: What’s Normal? 173
Part III: Drawing Conclusions from Data 185
Chapter 9: The Confi dence Game: Estimation 187
Chapter 10: One-Sample Hypothesis Testing 203
Chapter 11: Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing 219
Chapter 12: Testing More Than Two Samples 251
Chapter 13: Slightly More Complicated Testing 279
Chapter 14: Regression: Linear and Multiple 293
Chapter 15: Correlation: The Rise and Fall of Relationships 331
Part IV: Probability  353
Chapter 16: Introducing Probability 355
Chapter 17: More on Probability 379
Chapter 18: A Career in Modeling 393
Part V: The Part of Tens  413
Chapter 19: Ten Statistical and Graphical Tips and Traps 415
Chapter 20: Ten Things (Thirteen, Actually) That Just Didn’t Fit in Any Other Chapter 421
Appendix A: When Your Worksheet Is a Database 451
Appendix B: The Analysis of Covariance  467
Index  481
Bonus Appendix 1: When Your Data Live Elsewhere
Bonus Appendix 2: Tips for Teachers (And Learners)