Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics: An Easy to Understand Guide to Statistics and Analytics

Thought you couldnGÇÖt learn statistics? You can GÇô and you will! Even You Can Learn Statistics and Analytics is the practical, up-to-date introduction to statistics GÇô for everyone! Now fully updated for 'big data' analytics and the newest applications, it'll teach you all the statistical techniques youGÇÖll need for finance, marketing, quality, science, social science, and more GÇô one easy step at a time. Simple jargon-free explanations help you understand every technique, and extensive practical examples and worked problems give you all the hands-on practice you'll need. This edition contains more practical examples than ever GÇô all updated for the newest versions of Microsoft Excel. Learn how to do all this, and more:

• Apply statistical techniques to analyse huge data sets and transform them into valuable knowledge
• Construct and interpret statistical charts and tables with Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc 3
• Work with mean, median, mode, standard deviation, Z scores, skewness, and other descriptive statistics
• Use probability and probability distributions
• Work with sampling distributions and confidence intervals
• Test hypotheses with Z, t, chi-square, ANOVA, and other techniques
• Perform powerful regression analysis and modeling
• Use multiple regression to develop models that contain several independent variables
• Master specific statistical techniques for quality and Six Sigma programs