Statistical analysis with Excel for dummies

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