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A Note to the Student Why I Wrote this Book | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Yippee! I'm in Statistics | |
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Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You | |
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Why Statistics? | |
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A Five-Minute History of Statistics | |
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Statistics: What It Is (and Isn't) | |
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Tooling Around With the Analysis ToolPak | |
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What Am I Doing in a Statistics Class? | |
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Ten Ways to Use This Book (and Learn Statistics at the Same Time!) | |
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About Those Icons | |
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Key to Difficulty Icons | |
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Key to "How Much Excel" Icons | |
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Glossary | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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All Your Need to Know About Formulas and Functions | |
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What's a Formula? | |
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What's a Function? | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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All You Need to Know About Using the Amazing Data Analysis Toolpak | |
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A Look at a Data Analysis Tool | |
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Don't Have It? | |
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Sigma Freud and Descriptive Statistics | |
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Computing and Understanding Averages: Means to an End | |
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Computing the Mean | |
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Things to Remember | |
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Computing the Median | |
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Things to Remember | |
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Computing the Mode | |
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Using the Amazing Analysis ToolPak to Compute Descriptive Statistics | |
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When to Use What | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Prctice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Vive la Diff�rence: Understanding Variability | |
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Why Understading Variability Is Important | |
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Computing the Range | |
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Computing the Standard Deviation | |
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Things to Remember | |
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Computing the Variance | |
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Using the Amazing Analysis ToolPak (AGAIN) | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words | |
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Why Illustrate Data? | |
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Ten Ways to a Great Figure (Eat Less and Exercise More?) | |
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Fist Things First: Creating a Frequency Distribution | |
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The Plot Thickens: Creating a Histogram | |
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Fat and Skinny Frequency Distributions | |
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Excellent Charts | |
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Excellent Charts Part Deux: Making Charts Pretty | |
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Other Cool Charts | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients | |
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What Are Correlations All About? | |
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Things to Remember | |
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Computing a Simple Correlation Coefficient | |
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More Excel--Bunches of Correlatios à la Excel | |
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Using the Amazing Analysis ToolPak to Compute Corelations | |
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Understanding What the Correlation Coefficient Means | |
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As More Ice Cream Is Eaten ... the Crime Rate Goes Up (or Association Versus Causality) | |
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Other Cool Correlations | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Taking Chances for Fun and Profit | |
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Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions | |
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So You Want to Be a Scientist ... | |
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The Null Hypothesis | |
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The Research Hypothesis | |
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What Makes a Good Hypothesis? | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts | |
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Why Probability? | |
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The Normal Curve (a.k.a. the Bell-Shaped Curve) | |
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Our Favorite Standard Score: The z Score | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Significantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics | |
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Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me | |
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The Concept of Significance | |
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Significance Versus Meaningfulness | |
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An Introduction to Inferential Statistics | |
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An Introduction to Tests of Significance | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups | |
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Introduction to the t Test for Independent Samples | |
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Computing the Test Statistic | |
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Using the Amazing Data Analysis ToolPak to Compte the t Value | |
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Special Effects: Are Those Differences for Real? | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups | |
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Introduction to the t Test for Dependent Samples | |
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Computing the Test Statistic | |
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Using the Amazing Data Analysis ToolPak to Compute the t Value | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance | |
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Introduction to Analysis of Variance | |
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Computing the F Test Statistic | |
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Using the Amazing Data Analysis ToolPak to Compute the F Value | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance: A Brief Introduction | |
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Introduction to Factorial Analysis of Variance | |
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The Main Event: Main Effects in Factorial ANOVA | |
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Even More Interesting: Interaction Effects | |
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Computing the ANOVA F Statistic Using the Amazing Data Analysis ToolPak | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coefficient | |
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Introduction to Testing the Correlation Coefficient | |
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Computing the Test Statistic | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression | |
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What Is Prediction All About? | |
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The Logic of Prediction | |
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Drawing the World's Best Line (for Your Data) | |
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How Good Is Our Prediction? | |
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The More Predictors the Better? Maybe | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests | |
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Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics | |
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Introduction to One-Sample Chi-Square | |
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Computing the Chi-Square Test Statistic | |
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Other Nonparametric Tests You Should Know About | |
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Summary | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity | |
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An Introduction to Reliability and Validity | |
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All About Measurement Scales | |
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Reliability--Doing It Again Until You Get It Right | |
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Validity--Whoa! Wat Is the Truth? | |
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Validity and Reliability: Reallly Close Cousins | |
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Time to Practice | |
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Answers to Practice Questions | |
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Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About | |
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Multivariate Analysis of Variance | |
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Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance | |
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Analysis of Covariance | |
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Multiple Regression | |
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Factor Analysis | |
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Path Analysis | |
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Structural Equation Modeling | |
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Summary | |
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A Statistical Software Sampler | |
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Selecting the Perfect Statistics Software | |
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What's Out There | |
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Summary | |
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Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember | |
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The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff | |
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Tons and Tons of Resources | |
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Calculators Galore! | |
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Who's Who and What's Happened | |
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It's All Here | |
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HyperStat | |
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Data? You Want Data? | |
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More and More and More and More Resources | |
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Plain, But Fun | |
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How About Studying Statistics in Stockholm? | |
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Online Statistical Teaching Materials | |
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More and More and More Stuff | |
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The Ten Commandments of Data Collection | |
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Excel-erate your Learning: All You Need to Know About Excel | |
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Tables | |
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The Data Sets | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |