Stunned by statistics? Exhausted by Excel? Relax! Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, 4th Edition shows you how to use the world's most popular spreadsheet program to crunch numbers and interpret statistics—even if you've never taken a statistics or advanced math course. In no time, you'll learn to use Excel to create and translate statistics in everyday life, understand common statistical terms, and improve your classroom or professional skills.

Introduction

Part 1: Getting Started with Statistical Analysis with Excel: A Marriage Made in Heaven

Chapter 1: Evaluating Data in the Real World

Chapter 2: Understanding Excel’s Statistical Capabilities

Part 2: Describing Data

Chapter 3: Show and Tell: Graphing Data

Chapter 4: Finding Your Center

Chapter 5: Deviating from the Average

Chapter 6: Meeting Standards and Standings

Chapter 7: Summarizing It All

Chapter 8: What’s Normal?

Part 3: Drawing Conclusions from Data

Chapter 9: The Confidence Game: Estimation

Chapter 10: One-Sample Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 11: Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 12: Testing More Than Two Samples

Chapter 13: Slightly More Complicated Testing

Chapter 14: Regression: Linear and Multiple

Chapter 15: Correlation: The Rise and Fall of Relationships

Chapter 16: It’s About Time

Chapter 17: Non-Parametric Statistics

Part 4: Probability

Chapter 18: Introducing Probability

Chapter 19: More on Probability

Chapter 20: A Career in Modeling

Part 5: The Part of Tens

Chapter 21: Ten Statistical and Graphical Tips and Traps

Chapter 22: Ten Things (Twelve, Actually) That Just Didn’t Fit in Any Other Chapter

Appendix A: When Your Worksheet Is a Database

Appendix B: The Analysis of Covariance

Index

About the Author
Joseph Schmuller, PhD