Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

Chapter 17. Functions for Analyzing Statistics

Analyzing Distributions of Data

Understanding Linear and Exponential Regression

Using the Analysis Toolpak Data Analysis Tools

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides a wide range of features that can help you analyze statistical data. A number of functions that assist in simple analysis tasks, such as AVERAGE, MEDIAN, and MODE, are built into the program. If the built-in statistical functions aren’t enough, you can turn to the Analysis Toolpak, an add-in that provides a collection of tools to augment the built-in analytical capabilities of Office Excel 2007. You can use these tools to create histograms, create rank-and-percentile tables, extract samples from a data set, perform regression analysis, generate ...