Features an authentic and engaging approach to mathematical modeling driven by real-world applications With a focus on mathematical models based on real and current data, Models for Life: An Introduction to Discrete Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft(R) Office Excel(R) guides readers in the solution of relevant, practical problems by introducing both mathematical and Excel techniques. The book begins with a step-by-step introduction to discrete dynamical systems, which are mathematical models that describe how a quantity changes from one point in time to the next. Readers are taken through the process, language, and notation required for the construction of such models as well as their implementation in Excel. The book examines single-compartment models in contexts such as population growth, personal finance, and body weight and provides an introduction to more advanced, multi-compartment models via applications in many areas, including military combat, infectious disease epidemics, and ranking methods. Models for Life: An Introduction to Discrete Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft(R) Office Excel(R) also features: * A modular organization that, after the first chapter, allows readers to explore chapters in any order * Numerous practical examples and exercises that enable readers to personalize the presented models by using their own data * Carefully selected real-world applications that motivate the mathematical material such as predicting blood alcohol concentration, ranking sports teams, and tracking credit card debt * References throughout the book to disciplinary research on which the presented models and model parameters are based in order to provide authenticity and resources for further study * Relevant Excel concepts with step-by-step guidance, including screenshots to help readers better understand the presented material * Both mathematical and graphical techniques for understanding concepts such as equilibrium values, fixed points, disease endemicity, maximum sustainable yield, and a drug s therapeutic window * A companion website that includes the referenced Excel spreadsheets, select solutions to homework problems, and an instructor s manual with solutions to all homework problems, project ideas, and a test bank The book is ideal for undergraduate non-mathematics majors enrolled in mathematics or quantitative reasoning courses such as introductory mathematical modeling, applications of mathematics, survey of mathematics, discrete mathematical modeling, and mathematics for liberal arts. The book is also an appropriate supplement and project source for honors and/or independent study courses in mathematical modeling and mathematical biology. Jeffrey T. Barton, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematics Department at Birmingham-Southern College. A member of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, his mathematical interests include approximation theory, analytic number theory, mathematical biology, mathematical modeling, and the history of mathematics.

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that can transform the way you use data. This book explains in comprehensive and user-friendly detail how to manage, make sense of, explore and share data, giving scientists at all levels the skills they need to maximize the usefulness of their data. Readers will learn how to use Excel to: * Build a dataset - how to handle variables and notes, rearrangements and edits to data. * Check datasets - dealing with typographic errors, data validation and numerical errors. * Make sense of data - including datasets for regression and correlation; summarizing data with averages and variability; and visualizing data with graphs, pivot charts and sparklines. * Explore regression data - finding, highlighting and visualizing correlations. * Explore time-related data - using pivot tables, sparklines and line plots. * Explore association data - creating and visualizing contingency tables. * Explore differences - pivot tables and data visualizations including box-whisker plots. * Share data - methods for exporting and sharing your datasets, summaries and graphs. Alongside the text, Have a Go exercises, Tips and Notes give readers practical experience and highlight important points, and helpful self-assessment exercises and summary tables can be found at the end of each chapter. Supplementary material can also be downloaded on the companion website. Managing Data Using Excel is an essential book for all scientists and students who use data and are seeking to manage data more effectively. It is aimed at scientists at all levels but it is especially useful for university-level research, from undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Get beyond the basics with Excel 2007 charts Now you can take your Excel charting skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Excel 2007 Charts Made Easy shows you how to upgrade from simple pie and bar charts to rich data visualization using the full range of charts available in the latest version of the software. Discover how easy it is to create custom charts with compelling effects and to display data in more meaningful ways. Manually format chart components Show trends in your data with line charts Combine line and pie charts to create area charts Plot data using scatter charts and bubble charts Create and format stock charts Connect three data points with a surface chart Display the relationship between various data series using doughnut charts Compare data values with radar charts Use PivotTables and PivotCharts to work with dynamic data Incorporate Excel charts into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations

"Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft"(R) "Excel"(R) visualizes spreadsheets as an effective management tool both for financial analysis and for coordinating its results and actions with marketing, sales, production and service operations, quality control, and other business functions.

Taking an integrative view that promotes teamwork across corporate functions and responsibilities, the book contains dozens of charts, diagrams, and actual Excel(R) screenshots to reinforce the practical applications of every topic it covers. The first two sections-- Financial Statements and Cash Budgeting-- explain how to use spreadsheets for: Preparing income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements Performing vertical and horizontal analyses of financial statements Determining financial ratios and analyzing their trends and significance Combining quantitative and judgmental techniques to improve forecasts of sales revenues and customer demands Calculating and applying the time value of money Managing inventories, safety stocks, and the allocation of resources

The third and final section--Capital Budgeting-- covers capital structure, the cost of capital, and leverage; the basics of capital budgeting, including taxes and depreciation; applications, such as new facilities, equipment replacement, process improvement, leasing versus buying, and nonresidential real estate; and risk analysis of capital budgets and the potential impacts of unforeseen events.

"Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft"(R) "Excel"(R) takes a broad view of financial functions and responsibilities in relation to those of other functional parts of modern corporations, and it demonstrates how to use spreadsheets to integrate and coordinate them. It provides many insightful examples and case studies of real corporations, including Wal- Mart, Sun Microsystems, Nike, H. J. Heinz, Dell, Microsoft, Apple Computer, and IBM.

"Corporate Financial Analysis with Microsoft"(R) "Excel"(R) is the ideal tool for managing your firm's short-term operations and long-term capital investments.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Get beyond the basics with Excel 2007 macros Now you can take your Excel skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy shows you how to create, run, and revise macros to simplify repetitive tasks and store the instructions for complicated ones. You'll learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), add macros to the Excel toolbar, and share your macros with other users. Discover how easy it is to develop custom macros, save time, and boost productivity. Record and edit macros Create and debug macros in VBA Save macros to the Personal Macro Workbook or other workbooks Create VBA subroutines and functions Develop interactive macros Format cells using macros Create variables and arrays Apply logic to macros with If/Then/Else routines Use loops to process data Add controls to your worksheets

How to Do Everything with Excel 2007 teaches the reader how to master the latest version of Microsoft's market-dominating spreadsheet applicationExcel 2007 builds on previous versions of Excel by introducing a new interface featuring the Ribbon, a visual feature that replaces the current menus and toolbars and gives instant, context-sensitive access to whichever features the user currently needs. Excel 2007 also features an XML-based file format for greater compatibility with other applications, deeper integration with the other Office applications, and enhanced stability.FeaturesUses the proven hands-on approach of the How to Do Everything series to take the reader from being an Excel beginner to producing full-quality, professional work with ExcelCoverage includes spreadsheet layout; basic and advanced formatting; adding impact with graphics and diagrams; using functions and formulae (built-in and custom); building databases; creating PivotTables and PivotCharts; and using Solver, Goal Seek, and what-if analysis to solve complex business problemsHow To sidebars introduce practical, timesaving techniques for everyday operations-from the mundane to the sophisticated. Did You Know sidebars point up key information on why Excel works in unexpected ways and tell the reader how to get the most out of Excel

It's the solution to almost all of your electronic organization needs. Need to present a detailed expense report? Try an Excel spreadsheet. Keeping track of a complicated budget? Excel to the rescue. Want to keep tabs on your office football pool? You guessed it. Thanks to its incredible versatility and power, Excel has emerged as more than just a mainstream program; it's now one of the most used applications on the planet. Everyone from run-of-the-mill PC users to leading financial analysts count on Excel to make sense of overflowing data. And to keep up with the overwhelming user demand, three different versions of Excel have hit the market since the debut of Excel 97: Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. Naturally, each version offers a new slate of next-generation upgrades--and, of course, operating bugs! At last, Excel users have some relief: Excel Annoyances emerged from the suggestions of numerous Excel users who've struggled with these irritating bugs over the years. Written in the popular Annoyances format, this latest O'Reilly helper addresses all of the quirks, bugs, inconsistencies, and hidden features found in each of the four versions. Chances are if someone, somewhere, found a certain step confusing, then it's addressed in Excel Annoyances. Author Curtis D. Frye breaks down the cavalcade of information into several tip-of-the-finger categories such as Entering Data, Formatting, Charting, Printing, and more. If you're one of the millions of people who use Excel, you're sure to find a goldmine of helpful nuggets that you can use to fix the program's most annoying traits. In the end, Excel Annoyances will help you to truly maximize Excel's seemingly limitless potential.

Make Excel work harder and faster for you. This unique book presents sample code for more than twenty practical, high-powered Excel VBA macro applications. You’ll get all the essentials of VBA, and then explore ways to power Excel with VBA. Automate tasks, convert numbers to labels, transpose cells, add formula details, globally changes values, and much, much more.

"By guiding teachers and their students through the workings of Excel, this book ultimately leads to high-ordered decision making about data management and interpretation?a compelling reality of the 21^st century."
Nancy Tanner Edwards, Professor of Education
Missouri Western State College
St. Joseph, MO

  Make Microsoft Excel™ work for you?in the classroom and at your desk!

Using Excel in the Classroom is the essential how-to for teachers at all grade levels, filled with specific, classroom-tested templates, and techniques that teachers need most!

This book is an introduction to Microsoft Excel (TM) concentrating on the program's unique application to the work of surveyors. Useful operations such as the creation of valuation tables and automation of conventional valuations are explained with the aid of step by step examples and screen-shots. The setting up of discounted cash flow problems and development appraisals are given special attention, and specific problems posed by over-rented property and leaseholds are also considered, additionally the book includes examples of database and chart functions useful to management and agency surveyors

This title shows you how to quickly get to grips with the new features of Microsoft's latest version of this popular spreadsheet application. It brings more intuitive ways to explore, analyse and display your data, and simplifies sharing and collaborating using cloud storage.

Learn to maintain and update scorecards and dashboards with Excel

Balanced Scorecards and operational dashboards measure organizational performance and Microsoft Excel is the tool used worldwide to create these scorecards and dashboards. This book covers time-proven step-by-step processes on how to guide executive teams and managers in creating scorecards and dashboards. It then shows Excel developers how to create those scorecards and dashboards. This is the only book that converts theory into practice. The author addresses the people and processes you need to identify strategy and operational metrics and then implement them in dashboards in three versions of Excel. You'll learn how balanced scorecards help organizations translate strategy into action and the ways that performance dashboards enable managers monitor operations. Covers Excel 2010 back to Excel 2003 Shows how to develop consensus on strategy and operational plans with the executive teams Details steps in creating tactical action plans Gives step-by-step guidance in creating the most powerful management dashboardsPuts over ten years of experience in one book

"Balanced Scorecards & Operational Dashboards with Microsoft Excel, Second Edition" is the ultimate resource for enhancing your strategic and operational performance.

Immunisation is one of the few preventive interventions of undoubted and proven effectiveness...GPs are thoroughly convinced of the public health arguments in favour of immunization and regard it as an integral part of their clinical practice. This book is designed to help them plan provide develop and monitor a comprehensive immunisation service not only for their NHS patients but also if they wish on a private basis for travellers and for local companies. Good practice organisation is the key to providing high quality clinical and preventive services and this book is a notable and helpful contribution towards that good organisation. It should help even the most efficient doctors to ensure that they are providing the best managed and most profitable immunisation service they can - a service that should be welcomed by the patients it will benefit.' John Chisholm in the Foreword

Learn to fully harness the power of Microsoft Excel(R) to perform scientific and engineering calculations

With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's(R) capabilities to execute the calculations needed to solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The text begins with two chapters that introduce you to Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which allows you to expand Excel's(R) capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA. Following the author's step-by-step instructions, here are just a few of the calculations you learn to perform:

• Use worksheet functions to work with matrices
• Find roots of equations and solve systems of simultaneous equations
• Solve ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations
• Perform linear and non-linear regression
• Use random numbers and the Monte Carlo method This text is loaded with examples ranging from very basic to highly sophisticated solutions. More than 100 end-of-chapter problems help you test and put your knowledge to practice solving real-world problems. Answers and explanatory notes for most of the problems are provided in an appendix.

The CD-ROM that accompanies this text provides several useful features:

• All the spreadsheets, charts, and VBA code needed to perform the examples from the text
• Solutions to most of the end-of-chapter problems
• An add-in workbook with more than twenty custom functions This text does not require any background in programming, so it is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses. Moreover, practitioners in science and engineering will find that this guide saves hours of time by enabling them to perform most of their calculations with one familiar spreadsheet package

Statistics for the Utterly Confused, Second Edition . .

When it comes to understanding statistics, even good students can be confused. Perfect for students in any introductory non-calculus-based statistics course, and equally useful to professionals working in the world, "Statistics for the Utterly Confused" is your ticket to success. Statistical concepts are explained step-by-step and applied to such diverse fields as business, economics, finance, and more.. .

The message of "Statistics for the Utterly Confused" is simple: you don't have to be confused anymore. Updated and expanded to give you the latest changes in the field, this up-to-the-minute edition includes many new examples of Excel output, the most widely used of all statistics programs; a new chapter on Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); and 200 additions to the 700 self-testing questions and answers. The expert author's Web site also gives you tons of fresh examples, practice problems, and strategies--so you can go from utterly confused to totally prepared in no time! . . .

Inside, you'll discover how to: . . Grasp the meaning of everyday statistical concepts . Find out what's probable and what isn't. Read, understand, and solve statistics problems. Improve your scores on exams . Use your skills in any field . .

Topic, Instruction, Practice! McGraw-Hill's Microsoft (R) Office: In Practice offers a fresh, new approach to teaching today's students Microsoft (R) Office skills by clearly introducing skills in a logical sequence: 1) Topic 2) Instruction and 3) Practice. Nordell's T.I.P.s approach builds a foundation for success by helping students practice what they learn, and provides transferable skills that allow students to grasp critical thinking beyond the textbook assignment.

Learn Instantly from Step-by-Step Graphics!

We know a picture is worth a thousand words--so we went heavy on pictures and light on words in this easy-to-use guide. Color screenshots and brief instructions show you how to use Excel's number-crunching features in no time. Follow along and learn to enter and format data, calculate with functions and formulas, create charts and graphs, analyze data, and more. Each chapter's "How to" list and color-coded tabs make it easy to flip straight to the tasks you need to do. Get the book that gets you started using Excel right away.

In Each Chapter: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid Screenshots with captions show and explain exactly what you'll see on your computer screen while you're doing a task

John Cronan has more than 18 years of computing experience. He has worked on more than 20 books, including "Windows XP: A Beginner's Guide, FrontPage 2003: The Complete Reference, Excel for Windows 98 Made Easy, and "Office 2000 Answers: Certified Tech Support.

"iCheck Express Excel 2003" was written specifically for high school students. It is age-level and interest-level appropriate. Projects incorporate real-world business situations and cross-curricular academics. Leveled activities and projects help beginning and advanced students practice and reinforce skills. An Annotated Teacher's Edition provides point of use instruction and helpful teaching strategies for all student skill levels.

This book covers Microsoft Office Exam objectives for Excel 2003 Specialist and Excel 2003 Expert.

Project 1 provides students with an overview of Windows and Lotus 1-2-3. Students activities include learning how to start Windows and Lotus 1-2-3, identifying Window and 1-2-3 screens. Students have opportunities to move around the worksheet, enter data into worksheet, save a worksheet, and print a worksheet. Lotus 1-2-3 context sensitive Help is also introduced.

Designed for anyone who needs a comprehensive introduction to the principles of statistical methods and their applications, this text is written in a practical, non-threatening style. Step-by-step worked examples are used to illustrate the use of statistical techniques in solving practical problems while self-study exercises test students' knowledge. The use of Excel and MINITAB is fully integrated throughout the book to demonstrate the application of computer packages to solve a wide range of statistical problems. Presented alongside manual methods, these computer solutions include detailed instructions and annotated print outs where appropriate. The second edition retains the straightforward writing style and practical illustration of manual and computer methods which made the previous book successful for a wide range of courses.