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Essentials of Excel, Excel VBA, SAS and Minitab for Statistical and Financial Analyses

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  • Excel 2013, Minitab17, and SAS are integrated into the study and use of statistical analysis

  • Programming includes advanced applications of Excel (VBA, Visual Basic for Application)

  • All Excel macros published for users to study

  • Pedagogy from a business perspective—implementation of statistical concepts via case-study approach

  • Each chapter uses data from individual stocks, stock indices, options, and futures

  • A practical case-study based textbook for courses in business statistics, investment analysis, options, and futures

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Statistical Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 3-12
    3. Data Collection, Presentation, and Yahoo Finance

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 13-45
    4. Histograms and the Rate of Returns of JPM and JNJ

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 47-73
    5. Numerical Summary Measures on Rate of Returns of Amazon, Walmart, and the S&P 500

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 75-117
    6. Probability Concepts and Their Analysis

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 119-144
    7. Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 145-191
    8. The Normal and Lognormal Distributions

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 193-240
    9. Sampling Distributions and Central Limit Theorem

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 241-302
    10. Other Continuous Distributions

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 303-352
    11. Estimation

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 353-384
    12. Hypothesis Testing

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 385-417
    13. Analysis of Variance and Chi-Square Tests

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 419-445
    14. Simple Linear Regression and the Correlation Coefficient

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 447-479
    15. Simple Linear Regression and Correlation: Analyses and Applications

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 481-512
    16. Multiple Linear Regression

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 513-531
    17. Residual and Regression Assumption Analysis

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 533-568
    18. Nonparametric Statistics

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 569-587
    19. Time Series: Analysis, Model, and Forecasting

      • Cheng-Few Lee, John Lee, Jow-Ran Chang, Tzu Tai
      Pages 589-644

About this book

This introductory textbook for business statistics teaches statistical analysis and research methods via business case studies and financial data using Excel, Minitab, and SAS. Every chapter in this textbook engages the reader with data of individual stock, stock indices, options, and futures.

One studies and uses statistics to learn how to study, analyze, and understand a data set of particular interest. Some of the more popular statistical programs that have been developed to use statistical and computational methods to analyze data sets are SAS, SPSS, and Minitab. 

Of those, we look at Minitab and SAS in this textbook. One of the main reasons to use Minitab is that it is the easiest to use among the popular statistical programs. We look at SAS because it is the leading statistical package used in industry. We also utilize the much less costly and ubiquitous Microsoft Excel to do statistical analysis, as the benefits of Excel have become widely recognized in the academic world and its analytical capabilities extend to about 90 percent of statistical analysis done in the business world. We demonstrate much of our statistical analysis using Excel and double check the analysis and outcomes using Minitab and SAS—also helpful in some analytical methods not possible or practical to do in Excel.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Finance, Rutgers University, Piscataway Township, USA

    Cheng-Few Lee

  • Center for PBBEF Research, Morris Plains, USA

    John Lee

  • Department of Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Jow-Ran Chang

  • Mezocliq, LLC, New York, USA

    Tzu Tai

About the authors

Cheng-Few Lee
Rutgers University


John Lee
Center for PBBEF Research


Jow-Ran Chang
National Tsing Hua University




Tzu Tai
Rutgers University

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Buying options

eBook USD 139.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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