Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Using Microsoft Excel 2016

This book was required for a beginners data analytics course in my MBA program. I was not looking forward to this course, maths are not my strong point (although I handle data every day) and I had not taken stats (nor any legit math course since high school) before. This book is amazing! Easy to read and understand in simple, approachable language. It is meant to be used with Excel to analyze data - so the book has real world how-to's using Excel. Step by step. Gave me new skills to use at work without making my head spin.

Written in an easy to understand style.

This book totally walks you through running stats through Excel (which I didn't realize you could do before.....). It breaks down the steps nicely and is a great reference! I am so glad our professor made us purchase this book for the course! I will keep it foreverrrrrr

I honestly expected the worst buying this book used. It came in great condition. About the same as the one they keep in the library at school. No markings from previous owners or anything. Great deal.

Rounded up to 4 stars. Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Using Microsoft Excel 2016 by Neil Salkind, Paperback edition.This was bought for a graduate level intro to stats class and includes some of what other class members thought.Mandarin Chinese, computer programing, theoretical physics and advanced philosophy are all very easy. If your brain works that way, or you were raised in China. Then there are the rest of us. As it happens, I have become the Stats guy in my office, and between us I am not a stats guy. I was seriously afraid that I would not survive this class.Because the book makes it clear that Excel 2016 will do most of the heavy math, I survived and maybe did well.I came away with a better understanding of why stats exist and are important. Also a few more tools I can apply to these kinds of problems. And gratitude that the office is stats adverse so we tend to never go into most of these directions.To those who say: The are lies, damn lies and statistics. Why are you so happy to have damn lies? If you know even a little about stats you know that they are about error checking. Or how to detect and avoid lies. Absent this kind of error checking you are left with those same lies and no way to address them.Back to the book. Stats for People Who Hate Stats is another approach to the ever larger family of XYAZ for Dummies. It is generally respectful of reader and assume little about their ability to become deeply interested in the concepts. Each tool is introduced, partial described, there is an example an exercise then more discussion. I found this outline hard to adopt. I would have preferred all discussion up from then the mechanics all in one stretch. Mostly the class liked the generally lighter tone. Saljkind had on running joke of name of his book., but that evidentially worn thin for him and it eventually goes away.Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Using Microsoft Excel 2016 is a typical intro level stats book. There are many more academic and deeper texts. My recommendation for those whose brain is not bent that way, use this book for what it is then look for on line videos to take you deeper into those tools or concepts that interest you.