Category: Microsoft Office

Linear Regression using Microsoft Excel – Part 2. Don’t be fooled by the “Part 2”. Since we took a moment to review loading an Excel add-in, Part 2 is actually the beginning! How to do Linear Regression Analysis in Excel The first concern is locating the data that you want to analyze. It’s generally easy […]

Part I: Linear Regression in Microsoft Excel: How to Load the Excel Analysis Toolpak Add-In Most readers will be familiar with loading an Excel add-in. For those who don’t, or might be rusty, here’s a quick precis of what you need to do to perform easily linear regressions in Excel. The rest of you can […]

A look at STDEV, STDEVP, VAR and VARP- Amy M., from Developing SQL Queries for SQL Server, writes… “I know there are two functions for standard deviation and for variance in Transact-SQL, but I can never remember when to use which.” You are so right, Amy. It is hard to know when to use STDEV […]

The Importance of Histograms and Descriptive Statistics The word “statistics” comes from the German word “stadt”. Stadt means “city” but in the 18th century each city was a state in its own right. And the people who ran those states needed to have the facts. What is the population? What is the food production? How […]

Microsoft has announced the worldwide availability of Office365, released as their next generation of productivity applications. The product makes the popular productivity tools such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint available as a cloud service, where the software will always be up to date. By accessing these applications as a cloud service, a business can benefit […]