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What initially interested me in this book was its promise to show the reader how to use Excel for statistical analysis. In this respect, the book did not disappoint. What did disappoint, however, was how little advanced statistical analysis one can do with Excel. If you're new to statistics as I was, this may come as a surprise. If you assume Excel is as good as it gets for statistical analysis, well, you're wrong. That's where the book veers into Minitab. Minitab is pure statistical software. It looks a lot like Excel, but is much more powerful where statistical analysis is concerned. If you want to do Advanced Statistics, then you need to invest in something like Minitab. There are other options, such as R, SAS, Matlab, etc. But this book chooses to focus on Minitab, probably because of its familiar interface and relatively low purchase price ($100). I went ahead and took the plunge and obtained a copy of Minitab. This decision made the book much more valuable to me. As you get deeper into the book, many of the different analysis types can only be done (easily) with specialized software such as Minitab. I completed the examples and exercises from start to finish and found the

Who reads Advanced Statistics Demystified : a Self-teaching Guide?

Author

Larry J. Stephens

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780071471015

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Stem

Updated

2026-03-24