Synopsis
This book/CD-ROM text for an introductory statistics course focuses on analyzing data, interpreting the output from Microsoft Excel, and using the software. Learning features include report writing exercises, Internet exercises, case studies, and team projects. This third edition refines presentations of Microsoft Excel material, adds sections on using other components of Microsoft Office, and includes new and updated business scenarios. There are also new applied examples and exercises with data from the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The CD-ROM contains visual aids for understanding statistical concepts. Levine teaches at City University of New York.
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Updated edition of Microsoft's textbook for teaching Excel spreadsheet software for use in statistics applications. Topics include summarizing and describing numerical data, presenting data in tables and charts, basic probability and discrete probability distributions, fundamentals of hypothesis testing, regression, and time-series forecasting. The diskette contains Excel workbooks for all examples discussed in the text. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.