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- Written in a step-by-step, instructional format, using the Excel steps with their accompanying color screenshot figures to show the reader what should be happening on the reader's computer monitor, enabling them to solve statistics problems on their own
- Contains forty (40) statistics problems (as well as answers in chapter appendices) that are integrally related to courses in business and business statistics. These are provided at the end of each chapter, and in a practice test at the end of the volume
- Utilizes a comprehensible style, intended to be more digestible than the typical statistics text
Part of the book series: Excel for Statistics (EXCELSTAT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand biological and life science problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix. Separately, there is a full practice test (with answers in an appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned. This new edition offers a wealth of new practice problems and solutions, as well as updated chapter content throughout.
Keywords
- Applied Biological Statistics
- Applied Life Sciences Statistics
- Applied Statistics
- Biological Statistics
- Biological Statistics Analysis
- Life Sciences Statistics Analysis
- Biological Statistics in Practice
- Life Sciences Statistics in Practice
- Biological Statistics with Excel 2019
- Life Sciences Statistics with Excel 2019
- Excel Guide
- Excel Statistics
- Excel 2019
- Excel 2019 Analysis
Authors and Affiliations
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Professor of Marketing, Webster University, St. Louis, USA
Thomas J. Quirk
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Parker, USA
Meghan H. Quirk, Howard F. Horton
About the authors
Prof. Thomas J. Quirk is Professor Emeritus of Marketing at The Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri (US) where he taught Marketing Statistics, Marketing Research, and Pricing Strategies. At the beginning of his academic career, Prof. Quirk spent 6 years in educational research at The American Institutes for Research and Educational Testing Service. Prof. Quirk has published more than 20 articles in professional journals including The Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Educational Research, Review of Educational Research, Journal of Educational Measurement, and Educational Technology, published more than 60 textbook supplements in Management and Marketing, and presented more than 20 papers at professional meetings, including annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education. Prof. Quirk holds a BS in Mathematics from John Carroll University, both an MA in Education and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Dr. Meghan H. Quirk holds both a PhD in Biological Education and an MA in Biological Sciences from the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), and a BA in Biology and Religion at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She has done research on food web dynamics at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota and research in agro-ecology in Southern Belize. She has co-authored an article on shortgrass steppe ecosystems in Photochemistry and Photobiology and has presented papers at the Shortgrass Steppe Symposium inFort Collins, Colorado, the Long-term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, and participated in the NSF Site Review of the Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research in Nunn, Colorado. She is a National Science Foundation Fellow GK-12 and currently is a public school administrator in Parker, Colorado.
Howard F. Horton holds an MS in Biological Sciences from the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) and a BS in Biological Sciences from Mesa State College. He has worked on research projects in Pawnee National Grasslands, Rocky Mountain National Park, Long-Term Ecological Research at ToolikLake, Alaska, and Wind Cave, South Dakota. He has co-authored articles in The International Journal of Speleology and The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies. He is a National Science Foundation Fellow GK-12 and is currently the Angler Outreach Coordinator with the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Excel 2019 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Authors: Thomas J. Quirk, Meghan H. Quirk, Howard F. Horton
Series Title: Excel for Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39281-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39280-2Published: 17 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39281-9Published: 16 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2570-4605
Series E-ISSN: 2570-4613
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIX, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 162 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs, Biostatistics