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Summary: Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel by Berk and Carey
Review: As a statistics instructor, I found the book and software very helpful. To extract the software is a bit tricky - you need to read pages 8-10 and 76-77 to get the disk installed. Once installed, the Stat Plus Add-In adds extra tools, including a box plot and normal probability plot, that standard Excel does not have. My students use the software in a computer lab.
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Summary: Outstanding, practical resource
Review: Each of us on our data analysis team were given this book and have used the StatPlus add-ins to create control charts for various processes that we report on, with great success. The add-ins will work in Office Excel 2003 as well. Our company has seen substantially increased productivity and success as a result of the analyses that we are able to do with this book.
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Summary: The diskette alone is worth the price
Review: I bought the book for the diskette's XLA that allows you to add statistical routines to all your spreadsheets. The book clearly explains how to apply the routines with brief commentary and examples. It should not be used as the only stat book you use, but as a supplement to apply the principles already learned.
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Summary: No Support Whatsoever
Review: I have to say this book really does an okay job providing ways to use Excel for data analysis. But if you have ANY problems with their Add-Ins not working, the support people will just tell you it's an Excel problem...duh! Buy this book if you trust their Add-Ins will work on your computer. But if you encounter problems that you can't solve via the Microsoft help function, don't expect any help from the support that's promised in the back of the book. They'll just tell you to have your instructor figure it out.
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Summary: Excel updates makes book's old version confusing.
Review: I purchased this book in October 1999 and received the latest version available. I had a difficult time with this book because I use Excel 97 and the book has a much earlier version. The book leads you step-by-step through various Excel functions, but if you don't have the same version it's very difficult to figure out. I called the help desk and was told that they only assist in loading the software that comes with the book. I was told that if I had questions about the program I would have to e-mail them and they would be forwarded to the right person. Statistics is hard enough without having to go through all the challenges the book and its software currently offer. It has been more trouble to me than it has been worth. I would not recommend buying the book unless you are working with an early version of Excel.
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Summary: Students love it
Review: I use the book for an applied statistics course in the Economics Department at Emory University. Students find the worked examples very easy to follow and the Excel add-ins very easy to use. This text is a great resource for an instructor.
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Summary: A review by a statistics class (XP edition)
Review: I use this book as the main text book for the first half of a class in statistics and research methods for students from a wide variety of social science and humanities backgrounds, with little formal statistics or mathematics background. I surveyed my students with 5 questions about the book, with responses on a Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 3=neutral, 5=strongly aggree. 17 students responded, which is a small enough sample size to caution applicability of results. The mean value of each response appears after the questions I asked. 1.The book was, overall, helpful in explaining statistical concepts. (Mean=2.73). Students would have appreciated more explanation and examples.
2.The book helped me to analyze data. (Mean=2.3)
3.The StatPlus AddIn was, overall, helpful in analyzing data. (Mean=3.76)
4.The StatPlus AddIn worked well on my computer. (Mean=3.7)
5.Overall, I would recommend this book to next year's class. (Mean=3.05) Thus, overall, weighting each question equally, my students gave the book 3.12 stars. As a professor, I give the book 4 stars. The organization of the book chapters fit well in an overview course, with one chapter assinged per week. The StatPlus AddIn is worth the cost of the book itself, as it expands the statistical capabilities of Excel without students needing to purchase additional software. There are a wide range of problems and example data sets which come with the book, applicable to a wide range of disciplines. A significant number of students had computer difficulties installing and running the StatPlus AddIn, so I would recommend to the company a support web page with FAQs, at the least. Students with little preparation in mathematics or statiscs who need a good step-by-step guide to data analysis will find this book helpful, especially if they do the excercises at the end of the chapters. (The publishers should make the answers available to everyone, not just us instructors -- for those working on their own who want to check their work). However, students with some preparation in statistics or mathematics may be better served with a more advanced text.
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Summary: Data Analysis for "Non"-Scientists
Review: I was browsing through a local bookstore for a guide to Excel specially tailored for science and engineering applications. I encountered this book and found it very interesting and detailed. It is written in plain English that conveys the message very well. For readers are looking for info about using Excel for statistics (pertaining to business, economics, and social science), this is the perfect book. Yet it does not extrapolate and contain all the necesaary info on science and engineering applications. I still recommend this book for non-scientists.
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Summary: Data Analysis for "Non"-Scientists
Review: I was browsing through a local bookstore for a guide to Excel specially tailored for science and engineering applications. I encountered this book and found it very interesting and detailed. It is written in plain English that conveys the message very well. For readers are looking for info about using Excel for statistics (pertaining to business, economics, and social science), this is the perfect book. Yet it does not extrapolate and contain all the necesaary info on science and engineering applications. I still recommend this book for non-scientists.
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Summary: A must have for statistical analysis
Review: Of all the stats books I've had in school, this was the clearest and easiest to understand. Everything is explained in clear simple english. The only drawback was that there was only one recommendation in the regression section on how to improve your linear fit. This could have been expanded, otherwise it was great. I was already an Excel fan, but now I can get rid of my S-Plus and Arc programs.
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