Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office XP [With CDROM]

by Kenneth N. Berk and Patrick Carey

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534407145
• ISBN13: 9780534407148
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Duxbury Resource Center
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel is a great book for anyone who is involved with statistics. What I found the book most useful is the software that comes with it. And it helped me with school projects because it simplified my life. What I specifically wanted to do, the software led me to achieve my goals. An additional bonus is the explanations offered by the authors in terms of how to implement them with Excel. I thought they were quite helpful if a bit unclear at times. As a matter fact, I would have used Minitab, but the exorbitant cost of the software is too much for me at this point. On the other hand, I don't like doing the problems at the back of each chapter of Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel, and I found them nuisance since there is no solution in the back of the book or elsewhere. So, I ignore the needless additional work. All in all, I highly recommend Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel, and make sure that the CD comes with your purchase because without it, the book is somewhat useless.

A review by a statistics class (XP edition)

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.

Saved my bacon!

This book was a lifesaver on a graduate research project I was working on. I learned a lot about statistics, Microsoft Excel, and how they both work together. (My boss thinks that I am smart now)

Students love it

I use the book for an applied statistics course in the Economics Department at Emory University. Students find the worked examples very easy to follow and the Excel add-ins very easy to use. This text is a great resource for an instructor.

A must have for statistical analysis

Of all the stats books I've had in school, this was the clearest and easiest to understand. Everything is explained in clear simple english. The only drawback was that there was only one recommendation in the regression section on how to improve your linear fit. This could have been expanded, otherwise it was great. I was already an Excel fan, but now I can get rid of my S-Plus and Arc programs.