Excel Statistics Essential Training: 1

- Data is seemingly everywhere these days. Why? 'Cause it's easy to collect. Not only that, it's getting cheaper to store. But data sitting in storage is just that. It's numbers and variables and figures. Data is pointless if we can't understand it and put it to good use. That's where statistics can help. You can think of statistics in two different ways. Descriptive, which deals with organizing and presenting data, and inferential, which makes predictions based on sample trends. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel can help us take plain old data and analyze it. And that's what we're going to do in this course. Mind you, this is not a course on Excel. We're just using a software to get to the heart of our data. But what I will teach is stats around samples and populations. We'll also take a look at how to organize and describe data while using Excel's functions, graphics, and statistical capabilities. Once we're done describing the data, we'll look at how to analyze data and make decisions on what we find. Hello, I'm Joseph Schmuller. I'll be your host for this course. I've taught statistics courses in both the undergraduate and graduate levels for many years, and I'm the author of the four editions of Statistical Analysis with Excel for Dummies. I hope you enjoy taking this course as much as I enjoyed creating it. Let's get started.