Get the scoop on all of Excel''s statistical tools and what they can do for you

If "permutation" sounds like something you shouldn''t say around your grandmother and you read "margin of error" as "margin of terror," take heart! This easy-to-follow guide explains statistics in plain English and shows you how to use Excel charts, functions, samples, and correlations to make sense of it all — even if you''re numerically challenged!

Discover how to

• Understand means, medians, and standard deviations
• Use Excel to give meaning to sets of numbers
• Draw conclusions from data
• Test your hypotheses
• Apply statistical concepts to real-world situations

• This book makes it easy to crunch numbers and interpret statistics with Excel, even for the math-challenged
• Using plain English and real-life examples, the author provides information that will help readers improve their performance on the job or in the classroom
• Covers formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, as well as statistical terms like median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, permutations, and correlations-all using Excel