Statistical Analysis with Excel® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Author's Acknowledgments

One thing I have to tell you about writing a For Dummies book — it's an incredible amount of fun. You get to air out your ideas in a friendly, conversational way, and you get a chance to throw in some humor, too. To write a second edition is almost more fun than one writer should be allowed to have. I worked again with a terrific team. Acquisitions Editor Stephanie McComb and Project Editor Beth Taylor of Wiley Publishing have been encouraging, cooperative, and patient. Technical Editor Namir Shammas helped make this book as technically bulletproof as possible. Any errors that remain are under the sole proprietorship of the author. My deepest thanks to Stephanie and Beth. My thanks to Waterside Productions for representing me in this effort.

Again I thank mentors in college and graduate school who helped shape my statistical knowledge: Mitch Grossberg (Brooklyn College); Mort Goldman, Al Hillix, Larry Simkins, and Jerry Sheridan (University of Missouri-Kansas City); and Cliff Gillman and John Theios (University of Wisconsin-Madison). A long time ago at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Mort Goldman exempted me from a graduate statistics final on one condition — that I learn the last course topic, Analysis of Covariance, on my own. I hope he's happy with Appendix B.

I thank my mother and my brother David for their love and support and for always being there for me, and Kathryn for so much more than I can say. Finally, a special note of thanks to my friend ...