Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Windows 95 Edition

Readers learn how to solve real-life business problems and generate professional reports that include spreadsheets and graphics by harnessing the power of Microsoft Excel for Windows 95. This book teaches users how to use Excel, the industry standard software for spreadsheets, to do statistical analysis and the number-crunching that is often required when problems arise in business. This book is ideal for anyone who may someday find themselves having to make recommendations, forecasts, or decisions based upon sets of real data. Even users with no previous experience using computer spreadsheets will find the step-by-step approach and use of numerous screen shots make it easy to learn to use Excel in analyzing data sets.

Ken Berk has a BS in Physics from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) and a PhD in Mathematics from Minnesota. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Illinois State University and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He founded the Software Reviews section of The American Statistician and edited it for six years. He served as Secretary/Treasurer, Program Chair, and Chair of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association, and he twice co-chaired the Interface Symposium, the main annual meeting in statistical computing. His published work includes papers on time series, statistical computing, regression analysis, and statistical graphics and the book Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel (with Patrick Carey).

Patrick Carey received his M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin, where he worked as a researcher designing and analyzing clinical studies. He co-authored his first textbook on using Excel as a statistical tool. Patrick has authored or co-authored over 20 academic and trade texts for the software industry.