Excel Statistics Essential Training: 1
3h 37mIntermediate2023-05-23
Authors

Eddie Davila
Associate Chair for the ASU Supply Chain Management program
Course details
Data isn’t valuable until you put it to good use. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information, enabling organizations to make better decisions and predictions. That’s why statistics—collecting, analyzing, and presenting data—is a valuable skill for anyone in business or academia. In this course, statistics and business analysis instructor Eddie Davila takes you on a nuanced, step-by-step journey to mastering statistics through Excel. Eddie first teaches the basic principles of statistics with a series of examples, then advances your understanding by extending those same examples into more complex applications of statistical theory—all while using Excel and Excel's statistics tools and functions.
Skills covered
StatisticsSpreadsheetsMicrosoft ExcelEssential TrainingData ScienceBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoft
Concepts
Introduction
- Course introduction
- What you need to know
- Exercise files
Starting with Excel
- Excel basics
- Random number generator
Dataset Basics
- Sum, Count, Max, Min, and Range
- Means, medians, and modes
Looking at Data
- Frequency table
- Histogram
Dataset Variability
- Standard deviation
- Normal curve and normal distribution
- Skewness and kurtosis
- Empirical rule
Excel Descriptive Tools
- Descriptive tool
- Descriptive tool exercise
Basic Probability Concepts
- Probability explained
- Percentiles
- Permutations
- Combinations
- Addition rule of probability
- Multiplication rule of probability
- Conditional probability and probability trees
Discrete Probabilities
- Discrete probability explained
- Discrete - Mean
- Discrete - Standard deviation
- Discrete - Binomial distribution
Continuous Probabilities
- Continuous - Z-score tables
- Continuous - Creating a normal curve in Excel
- Continuous - Calculating normal distribution probabilities
Conclusion
- Next steps and additional resources