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Title: Data Analysis With Microsoft Excel by Kenneth N. Berk, Patrick Carey ISBN: 0-534-40714-5 Publisher: Duxbury Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A review by a statistics class (XP edition)
Comment: I use this book as the main text book for the first half of a class in statistics and research methods for students from a wide variety of social science and humanities backgrounds, with little formal statistics or mathematics background.
I surveyed my students with 5 questions about the book, with responses on a Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 3=neutral, 5=strongly aggree. 17 students responded, which is a small enough sample size to caution applicability of results. The mean value of each response appears after the questions I asked.
1.The book was, overall, helpful in explaining statistical concepts. (Mean=2.73). Students would have appreciated more explanation and examples.
2.The book helped me to analyze data. (Mean=2.3)
3.The StatPlus AddIn was, overall, helpful in analyzing data. (Mean=3.76)
4.The StatPlus AddIn worked well on my computer. (Mean=3.7)
5.Overall, I would recommend this book to next year's class. (Mean=3.05)
Thus, overall, weighting each question equally, my students gave the book 3.12 stars.
As a professor, I give the book 4 stars. The organization of the book chapters fit well in an overview course, with one chapter assinged per week. The StatPlus AddIn is worth the cost of the book itself, as it expands the statistical capabilities of Excel without students needing to purchase additional software. There are a wide range of problems and example data sets which come with the book, applicable to a wide range of disciplines. A significant number of students had computer difficulties installing and running the StatPlus AddIn, so I would recommend to the company a support web page with FAQs, at the least.
Students with little preparation in mathematics or statiscs who need a good step-by-step guide to data analysis will find this book helpful, especially if they do the excercises at the end of the chapters. (The publishers should make the answers available to everyone, not just us instructors -- for those working on their own who want to check their work). However, students with some preparation in statistics or mathematics may be better served with a more advanced text.
Rating: 4
Summary: StatPlus a useful tool
Comment: The statplus pack taht comes with the book, does a great job at solving one of excel shortcomings - not being able to add test labels to points on a scatter plot.
The book it self is too simplistic, does not go into detail on how formulas work. If you need a book to explain the formulas behind excel stats, and how to manipulate them, this is not the book.
However if you are just learning/teaching how to use the formulas for basic analysis this is great.
Rating: 5
Summary: Saved my bacon!
Comment: This book was a lifesaver on a graduate research project I was working on. I learned a lot about statistics, Microsoft Excel, and how they both work together. (My boss thinks that I am smart now)
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Title: Learning Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel 2000 by John L. Neufeld ISBN: 0130308781 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Business Statistics by Ph.D. Douglas Downing, Ph.D. Jeffrey Clark ISBN: 0764119834 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 15 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Statistics with Excel (2nd Edition) by Beverly Jean Dretzke ISBN: 0130223573 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 25 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.33 |
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Title: Excel Charts by John Walkenbach ISBN: 0764517643 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: International Marketing Strategy (2nd Edition) by Frank Bradley ISBN: 0131495275 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $97.00 |
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