Introduction

In This Introduction

What’s in the Book

Why Use Excel?

I’d like to get something off my chest right away: Excel workbooks are waiting for you to download them from the publisher’s website, quepublishing.com/title/9780789751683. The download links are sometimes a little tough to distinguish from regular text, but both the links and the workbooks are there.

Starting with Chapter 2, “Logistic Regression,” each chapter in this book has its own Excel workbook, and each figure in each chapter appears as a separate worksheet. A few additional workbooks carry out cluster analysis, discriminant function analysis, and other analytics procedures that don’t have their own worksheet functions.

Okay, with that item out of the way:

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