Working With Sample Data: Exploration and Inference

As a manager or an analyst, you routinely collect and examine key performance
measures to better understand your company operations and
to make good decisions. But rendering the complexity of operations data
into a coherent account of significant events requires the ability to work
well with raw data and to make appropriate inferences. This book can
help.
This book details the methods to help you understand statistical techniques
for analyzing data and to make inferences with sound reasoning.
By applying these fundamental methods yourself, rather than turning
over both the data and the responsibility for their analysis and interpretation
to an expert, you can develop a richer understanding and potentially
gain better control over your business environment. You’ll catch on quicker
with the use of computers and spreadsheet software, and the authors
provide examples that will show you how to explore data and makes inferences
with Microsoft Excel.