Doing Statistics with Excel for Windows Version 5.0: An Introductory Course Supplement for Explorations in Data Analysis

by Marilyn K. Pelosi, Jerzy J. Letkowski, Theresa M. Sandifer

This user-friendly workbook enables students to see the valuable information in data and provides them with detailed command instructions for using Microsoft Excel to accomplish the desired statistical analysis. Every chapter is designed to allow students to explore a single statistical concept by investigating a data set and consists of a summary of the statistical objective, a problem statement, characteristics of the data set, tutorials and investigative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471148997
• ISBN13: 9780471148999
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 19.9" x 25.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent "hands-on" book for statistics with Excel

This book is great for people who want to use Excel to analyze data using the statistical package and functions that Excel has to offer. The book reviews how to manuever in Excel and starts from the basics of statistics and proceeds to more advanced statistics such as hypothesis testing and regression. The book has great examples, and plenty of pictures and visual aides so that the reader does not have to guess as to what to do. The book does come with software so one can practice and have hands on experience.The authors explain statistics in a plain and simple way and do not try to lose the reader with long and complex words. They are straight and to the point keeping it simple so that the reader and student learns and can go through the book and the course with more ease. If you want to use do statistics with Excel, this book is a great start.