Overview:
The Excel Data Analysis ToolPak Add-in allows Excel users to solve statistical analysis problems WITHOUT the need for the statistical background or being familiar with conventional Excel statistical functions. This tool can solve your problems applicable to finance, statistics, engineering and more.
The "Descriptive Statistics" feature of the Data Analysis ToolPak, allows you to analyze data and get all the statistical summaries of that data (Sum, Average, High, Low, Median, Standard Deviations and a few more) with just a few clicks.
The "Histogram" part of this tool, creates a frequency-distribution of occurrences - and a frequency-distribution-chart without the effort and know-how that other statistical functions require.
The "Correlation" feature the ToolPak is a tool that will, almost instantly, generates all the multiple correlation coefficients between a number of variables simultaneously.
This workshop will cover the recently introduced "Forecast Sheet" an easy-to-use tool to help you forecast future values based of historical data. This tool will work for you again, without a statistical background.
You will receive all the Excel files before the workshop – so that you can practice all these techniques during the workshop and on you own.
Why you should Attend:
The vast majority of college students feel overwhelmed by statistical concepts. This anxiety often persists into their professional lives.
Statistics enables you to:
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Who Will Benefit:
Excel users that would like to acquire statistical tools for daily use and decision making. This workshop was taught by the presenter in the executive MBA programs, where the attendees did not have a statistical background.
Isaac Gottlieb For more than 25 years Dr. Isaac Gottlieb has been teaching Excel workshops for MBA students in a number of universities, including, Columbia, NYU and others in the US and other countries. In addition, he taught courses of Management Science and Statistics for Managers (always) using Excel. Over 100,000 students have attended his workshops and courses over the past 25 years.
He received the Microsoft MVP – Most Valuable Professional – award for the years 2014-6. “A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is an award for individuals who have exhibited exceptional technical expertise and a talent for sharing knowledge within their technical community.” (From Microsoft’s site.)
Isaac Gottlieb has taught how to use Excel-and how to apply it effectively to various business disciplines-to thousands corporate professionals from leading multinational companies as well as small private business corporations.
He mails Excel-Tip-Of-The-Month to over 35,000 recipients.
Dr. Gottlieb has earned his PhD and two Masters Degrees from Columbia University Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.
His two recent books are:
Excel 2022 Pro 100 + PivotTables, Charts & Reports: Explore Excel 2022 with Graphs, Animations, Sparklines, Goal Seek, Histograms, Correlations, Dashboards. Nov 2022.
Management Science using Excel: Harnessing Excel's advanced features for business optimization. Aug 2023.