Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office XP (with CD-ROM) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kenneth N. Berk, Partrick Carey
Publisher: Duxbury Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 600
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0534407145
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
EAN: 9780534407148
ASIN: 0534407145
Publication Date: March 25, 2003
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This popular best-selling book shows students and professionals how to do data analysis with Microsoft Excel. DATA ANALYSIS WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL teaches students and professionals the fundamental concepts of statistics and how to use Microsoft Excel to solve the kind of data-intensive problems that arise in business and elsewhere. Even students with no previous experience using spreadsheets will find that this text's step-by-step approach, extensive tutorials, and examples make it easy to learn how to use Excel for analyzing data. A CD-ROM is included with every new text that contains the StatPlus add-ins for Microsoft Excel and data sets for exercises.
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Worth it for the Disk April 11, 2007
D. R. Pitts (Fairfield, CA United States)
I have just recieved this Book, and have yet to delve into the text, but a brief review of the functionality provided on the the CD proves the purchase is worth it. Box Plots, Stem and leaf diagrams, Dtat point labeling and Scatterplot matrix alone is worth the price of the book
Good resource December 22, 2006
Always learning...
I had this book for an undergraduate web-based distance learning course.
It provided good explanations, both of the excel function, and what was going on mathematically.
Very easy to find information.
StatPlus is a good addin. The interactive elements on distributions was also very helpful.
Very thorough text for both beginning and intermediate level users of Excel.
Outstanding, practical resource February 2, 2005
Steven W. Buehler (Lakeland, FL United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Each of us on our data analysis team were given this book and have used the StatPlus add-ins to create control charts for various processes that we report on, with great success. The add-ins will work in Office Excel 2003 as well. Our company has seen substantially increased productivity and success as a result of the analyses that we are able to do with this book.
 No Support Whatsoever August 3, 2004
Graduate Statistics Student (Chicago, Illinois)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to say this book really does an okay job providing ways to use Excel for data analysis. But if you have ANY problems with their Add-Ins not working, the support people will just tell you it's an Excel problem...duh! Buy this book if you trust their Add-Ins will work on your computer. But if you encounter problems that you can't solve via the Microsoft help function, don't expect any help from the support that's promised in the back of the book. They'll just tell you to have your instructor figure it out.
A review by a statistics class (XP edition) October 18, 2003
Reader_in_PA (MACUNGIE, PA USA)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
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.
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