Statistics with Microsoft Excel [Spiral-bound]

Beverly Jean Dretzke (Author, Preface), Kenneth A. Heilman (Preface)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0139565337 | ISBN-13: 978-0139565335

*For a one or two term course in introductory statistics using Excel. Appropriate for a variety of disciplines including mathematics, the social sciences, and business. May also be used by graduate students in education required to complete an introductory data analysis course. *This manual provides statistics students with a complete introduction to statistics using Excel. Its availability, easy-to-understand basic spreadsheet operations, and Analysis Tools make Excel a superb software package to carry out statistical analyses in required core courses.

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From the Back Cover

This book provides a complete introduction to statistics using Excel. Its easy-to-understand basic spreadsheet operations, and its Analysis Tools make Excel an superb software package to carry out statistical analyses. Covers Excel's numerous options for constructing charts, manipulating and transforming data, and pasting output into written documents. Excel's Analysis Tools provide numerous statistical analysis procedures: descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, t-test, and two-way analysis of variance.

About the Author

Beverly J. Dretzke, PhD, is a research associate at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI). She serves as a principal investigator and project manager for projects related to program evaluation in school districts throughout Minnesota. Evaluation projects that she has worked on include studies of teacher professional development, Chinese language programs, and small learning communities. Prior to joining the staff at CAREI, Dretzke was a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she taught courses in statistics, measurement, and educational psychology. She received her doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 164 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (January 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139565337
• ISBN-13: 978-0139565335
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,884,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buy only if you already know statistics, March 3, 2000

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This review is from: Statistics with Microsoft Excel (Spiral-bound)

I had hoped this book would explain the statistical techniques themselves before jumping into how to use Excel, which is all it really does. If you already know statistics (which I did not) and don't know Excel (which I did) this will help. If the reverse is true, keep looking.

21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First-class piece of work., May 7, 1999

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From a reviewer: I teach mathematics/statistics in the Education dept at Liverpool John Moores University, England. I have been asked by the publication 'Teaching Statistics' to review your recent book on Statistics with Excel.

I would like to congratulate you on this first class piece of work. I have felt for some time that the profession is too hung up with the usefulness of dedicated stats packages. Too often I believe, statistics departments believe that the costlier the package, then the better it is. Untrue!

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as I hoped it would be., January 11, 1999

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This review is from: Statistics with Microsoft Excel (Spiral-bound)

I read this book, hoping to recommend it to my stat students. The exercises and examples were easy to follow, _but_ there was not enough explanation of the examples that were given.

For example, rather than just show how to do an analysis of probability, I wished for more of the "nuts and bolts" of the analysis.

I was disappointed. Even though the price of this book is relatively low, I would not recommend this to beginning students of statistics. The front section on using Excel seemed OK, but I didn't pay attention to it, as it was not needed for my classes.