At the beginning of his academic career, Thomas J. Quirk spent six years performing educational research at The American Institutes for Research and Educational Testing Service. He then taught Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Research Methods, General Psychology, Marketing, Management, and Accounting at Principia College. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Marketing in The Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), where he taught Marketing Statistics, Marketing Research, and Pricing Strategies. He has written 60+ textbook supplements in Marketing and Management, published 20+ articles in professional journals, and presented 20+ papers at professional meetings. He 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.

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 engineering and engineering 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

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean.- 2 Random Number Generator.- 3 Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing.- 4 One-Group t-Test for the Mean.- 5 Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups.- 6 Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.- 7 Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression.- 8 One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Practice Problems.- Appendix B: Practice Test.- Appendix C: Answers to Practice Test.- Appendix D: Statistical Formulas.- Appendix E: t-table.- Index.