I wrote the documents below to help you to understand basic statistical concepts, and to show you how to use Excel to solve statistical problems.  If you're having trouble with a homework problem or with something in the book, I strongly encourage you to read through the relevant section of the demonstrations.

                                                                                                                    Scott

Demonstrations I for Excel 2003:  Graphs and Contingency Tables Demonstrations I for Excel 2007:  Graphs and Contingency Tables
Demonstrations II:  Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion  
Demonstrations III:  Probability Distributions and Sampling  
Demonstrations IV:  Confidence Intervals  

 

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