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Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

Overview

Become a stats superstar by using Excel to reveal the powerful secrets of statistics 

Microsoft Excel offers numerous possibilities for statistical analysis—and you don’t have to be a math wizard to unlock them. In Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, fully updated for the 2021 version of Excel, you’ll hit the ground running with straightforward techniques and practical guidance to unlock the power of statistics in Excel.

Bypass unnecessary jargon and skip right to mastering formulas, functions, charts, probabilities, distributions, and correlations. Written for professionals and students without a background in statistics or math, you’ll learn to create, interpret, and translate statistics—and have fun doing it! 

In this book you’ll find out how to: 

  • Understand, describe, and summarize any kind of data, from sports stats to sales figures 
  • Confidently draw conclusions from your analyses, make accurate predictions, and calculate correlations 
  • Model the probabilities of future outcomes based on past data 
  • Perform statistical analysis on any platform: Windows, Mac, or iPad 
  • Access additional resources and practice templates through Dummies.com 

For anyone who’s ever wanted to unleash the full potential of statistical analysis in Excel—and impress your colleagues or classmates along the way—Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies walks you through the foundational concepts of analyzing statistics and the step-by-step methods you use to apply them.   

Become a stats superstar by using Excel to reveal the powerful secrets of statistics 

Microsoft Excel offers numerous possibilities for statistical analysis—and you don’t have to be a math wizard to unlock them. In Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies, fully updated for the 2021 version of Excel, you’ll hit the ground running with straightforward techniques and practical guidance to unlock the power of statistics in Excel.

Bypass unnecessary jargon and skip right to mastering formulas, functions, charts, probabilities, distributions, and correlations. Written for professionals and students without a background in statistics or math, you’ll learn to create, interpret, and translate statistics—and have fun doing it! 

In this book you’ll find out

how to: 

  • Understand, describe, and summarize any kind of data, from sports stats to sales figures 
  • Confidently draw conclusions from your analyses, make accurate predictions, and calculate correlations 
  • Model the probabilities of future outcomes based on past data 
  • Perform statistical analysis on any platform: Windows, Mac, or iPad 
  • Access additional resources and practice templates through Dummies.com 

For anyone who’s ever wanted to unleash the full potential of statistical analysis in Excel—and impress your colleagues or classmates along the way—Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies walks you through the foundational concepts of analyzing statistics and the step-by-step methods you use to apply them.   

Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Excel offers a wide range of statistical functions you can use to calculate a single value or an array of values in your Excel worksheets. The Excel Analysis Toolpak is an add-in that provides even more statistical analysis tools.