Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel Updated for Office 2000 [With Accompanying CD-ROM]

by Kenneth N. Berk and Patrick Carey

This popular hands-on text teaches students how to use Microsoft Excel to solve the kind of statistical problems that arise in business and elsewhere. Even students with no previous experience using... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534362788
• ISBN13: 9780534362782
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Duxbury Resource Center
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A review by a statistics class (XP edition)

I use this book as the main text book for the first half of a class in statistics and research methods for students from a wide variety of social science and humanities backgrounds, with little formal statistics or mathematics background. I surveyed my students with 5 questions about the book, with responses on a Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 3=neutral, 5=strongly aggree. 17 students responded, which is a small enough sample size to caution applicability of results. The mean value of each response appears after the questions I asked.1.The book was, overall, helpful in explaining statistical concepts. (Mean=2.73). Students would have appreciated more explanation and examples.2.The book helped me to analyze data. (Mean=2.3)3.The StatPlus AddIn was, overall, helpful in analyzing data. (Mean=3.76)4.The StatPlus AddIn worked well on my computer. (Mean=3.7)5.Overall, I would recommend this book to next year's class. (Mean=3.05)Thus, overall, weighting each question equally, my students gave the book 3.12 stars. As a professor, I give the book 4 stars. The organization of the book chapters fit well in an overview course, with one chapter assinged per week. The StatPlus AddIn is worth the cost of the book itself, as it expands the statistical capabilities of Excel without students needing to purchase additional software. There are a wide range of problems and example data sets which come with the book, applicable to a wide range of disciplines. A significant number of students had computer difficulties installing and running the StatPlus AddIn, so I would recommend to the company a support web page with FAQs, at the least.Students with little preparation in mathematics or statiscs who need a good step-by-step guide to data analysis will find this book helpful, especially if they do the excercises at the end of the chapters. (The publishers should make the answers available to everyone, not just us instructors -- for those working on their own who want to check their work). However, students with some preparation in statistics or mathematics may be better served with a more advanced text.

Saved my bacon!

This book was a lifesaver on a graduate research project I was working on. I learned a lot about statistics, Microsoft Excel, and how they both work together. (My boss thinks that I am smart now)

Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel by Berk and Carey

As a statistics instructor, I found the book and software very helpful. To extract the software is a bit tricky - you need to read pages 8-10 and 76-77 to get the disk installed. Once installed, the Stat Plus Add-In adds extra tools, including a box plot and normal probability plot, that standard Excel does not have. My students use the software in a computer lab.

Students love it

I use the book for an applied statistics course in the Economics Department at Emory University. Students find the worked examples very easy to follow and the Excel add-ins very easy to use. This text is a great resource for an instructor.

A must have for statistical analysis

Of all the stats books I've had in school, this was the clearest and easiest to understand. Everything is explained in clear simple english. The only drawback was that there was only one recommendation in the regression section on how to improve your linear fit. This could have been expanded, otherwise it was great. I was already an Excel fan, but now I can get rid of my S-Plus and Arc programs.