Chapter 2

Understanding Excel’s Statistical Capabilities

In This Chapter

arrow Working with worksheet functions

arrow Creating a shortcut to statistical functions

arrow Getting an array of results

arrow Naming arrays

arrow Tooling around with analysis

arrow Using Excel’s Quick Statistics feature

arrow Finding out tips for Mac users

In this chapter, I introduce you to Excel’s statistical functions and data analysis tools. If you’ve used Excel, and I’m assuming you have, you’re aware of Excel’s extensive functionality, of which statistical capabilities are a subset. Into each worksheet cell you can enter a piece of data, instruct Excel to carry out calculations on data that reside in a set of cells, or use one of Excel’s worksheet functions to work on data. Each worksheet function is a built-in formula that saves you the trouble ...

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