Beschreibung
This is todays most complete guide to regression analysis with Microsoft® Excel for any business analytics or research task. Drawing on 25 years of advanced statistical experience, Microsoft MVP Conrad Carlberg shows how to use Excels regression-related worksheet functions to perform a wide spectrum of practical analyses. Carlberg clearly explains all the theory youll need to avoid mistakes, understand what your regressions are really doing, and evaluate analyses performed by others. From simple correlations and t-tests through multiple analysis of covariance, Carlberg offers hands-on, step-by-step walkthroughs using meaningful examples. He discusses the consequences of using each option and argument, points out idiosyncrasies and controversies associated with Excels regression functions, and shows how to use them reliably in fields ranging from medical research to financial analysis to operations. You dont need expensive software or a doctorate in statistics to work with regression analyses. Microsoft Excel has all the tools you needand this book has all the knowledge! Understand what regression analysis can and cant do, and whyMaster regression-based functions built into all recent versions of ExcelWork with correlation and simple regressionMake the most of Excels improved LINEST() functionPlan and perform multiple regressionDistinguish the assumptions that matter from the ones that dontExtend your analysis options by using regression instead of traditional analysis of varianceAdd covariates to your analysis to reduce bias and increase statistical power
Autorenporträt
Conrad Carlberg (www.conradcarlberg.com) is a nationally recognized expert on Quantitative analysis and on data analysis and management applications such as Microsoft Excel, SAS, and Oracle. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Colorado and is a many-time recipient of Microsofts Excel MVP designation. Carlberg is a Southern California native. After college he moved to Colorado, where he worked for a succession of startups and attended graduate school. He spent two years in the Middle East, teaching computer science and dodging surly camels. After finishing graduate school, Carlberg worked at US West (a Baby Bell) in product management and at Motorola. In 1995 he started a small consulting business that provides design and analysis services to companies that want to guide their business decisions by means of quantitative analysisapproaches that today we group under the term analytics. He enjoys writing about those techniques and, in particular, how to carry them out using the worlds most popular numeric analysis application, Microsoft Excel.
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