Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Updated for Office XP (with CD-ROM) by Patrick Carey, Kenneth N. Berk, Partrick Carey

Synopsis

This book/CD-ROM package offers step-by-step instructions, multiple examples, and concept tutorials, and includes, on the companion CD- ROM, software for expanding Excel's statistical capabilities. This updated edition contains new tutorials on regression analysis, plus software add-ins. Berk teaches mathematics at Illinois State University. Carey has authored many academic and trade books for the software industry. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Booknews

Berk (Illinois State U.) and Carey, a consultant, teach even Excel novices how to apply this popular business spreadsheet software to learn statistical fundamentals in either a classroom or self-paced setting. Chapters include exercises. The CD-ROM contains concept tutorials on such topics as probability distributions, statistical inference, tables, regression and correlation, and time series analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

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. He has authored or co-authored over 20 academic and trade texts for the software industry. Carey has written on the Windows operating system, Web page design, database management, the Internet, browsers, and presentation graphics software.