Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 46 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Luc Zio
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Course Overview
Learn how to harness advanced statistical functions in Excel to effectively analyze and interpret data.
This course provides an in-depth introduction to advanced statistical functions in Excel, utilizing the latest features and tools available in Excel for Office 365. It is designed for data analysts, students, and professionals who wish to elevate their data analysis skills with advanced Excel capabilities.
In this course, you will learn to harness a variety of powerful statistical functions, including Normal Distribution, Student-t Distribution, Chi-Square Distribution, F Distribution, Gamma, Log-Normal, Negative Binomial, and Exponential Distributions. You’ll also learn to calculate margins of error and construct confidence intervals, crucial skills for conducting precise data analysis. Additionally, the course covers the creation of Standard Normal tables and Student-t tables, important tools for understanding statistical data.
The material is updated with practical examples, quizzes, and Excel files that illustrate each function and its real-world applications. These hands-on activities are designed to help you grasp the concepts quickly and apply them to both educational and professional settings. Detailed screenshots and interactive exercises ensure that you can follow along and effectively learn each function as it is introduced.
By the end of the course, you will have developed a robust toolkit of advanced analytical tools to tackle a wide range of data analysis challenges. Whether you're working on academic projects, business analytics, or professional research, this course will provide you with the skills to analyze data with confidence. Depending on your prior experience, you can complete this course in a month or less.
This course will be invaluable for anyone looking to advance their expertise in statistical analysis and apply these techniques in real-world situations using Excel for Office 365.
Course Content
- 9 section(s)
- 44 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome to Mastering Advanced Statistical Functions in Excel
- Section 2 Functions related to the normal or bell-shaped distribution
- Section 3 Functions related to the Student t distribution
- Section 4 Computing Chi-square distribution probabilities and critical values
- Section 5 Computing F-Distribution probabilities
- Section 6 Other advanced Statistical functions in EXCEL 2010
- Section 7 Advanced Statistical functions in EXCEL 2013
- Section 8 Practice project files and Quizzes
- Section 9 Closing remarks and follow up
What You’ll Learn
- Analyze data using advanced statistical functions and Excel's Data Analysis Toolpak for summary statistics.
- After completing this course, you will feel comfortable using EXCEL advanced statistical functions for Analytics and Real World cases.
- Conduct t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-square tests for categorical data analysis.
- Advanced statistical functions about the Normal or Bell-Shaped distribution, Student t distribution, chi square, lognormal, negative binomial, etc..
- Solve inferential statistical problems using the functions and libraries you studied in the course
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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BBill Clinton Onyango
so far so good Very detailed with every bit i always assumed
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JJames Smith
This was very informative.
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MMonson Marukatat
Hope to see an exercise file that goes along with the lecture eventually. If not, it's just listening to a typical lecture which can be found a lot in Youtube.
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KKalbi
First, the course use Excel 2010 or +, which is easy to access for all, to summarize data and compute statistics commonly use in industry. Second, the course goes through elementary details, not oftentimes taught in ordinary stat courses, to accommodate those with no statistical background. third, the course provides statistical and professional interpretation of the computed statistics.
