William Dorner  |  10/01/1997

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Using Excel for Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel's capabilities for analyzing data are limited only by your creativity.

Professional statisticians typically have powerful software at their disposal to perform advanced analyses and create slick graphs. But many professionals in the quality field don't enjoy that luxury. Faced with a limited budget, they must be resourceful with the software they already have. Besides, not everyone needs the capability to perform nonlinear regression with custom loss functions for maximum likelihood! Fortunately, many occasional data analysts already own a versatile software capable of providing most basic quality analyses -- Microsoft Excel.



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William W. Dorner is a senior quality/process engineer at Best Lock Corp. in Indianapolis. He is a member of ASQ and ASA.

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