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Macquarie University

Statistics and Data Analysis with Excel: Essentials

Data drives decisions in every field — business, health, science, sports, and beyond. This course gives you the statistical tools to make sense of data, spot patterns, and present findings that inform real-world decisions. You'll work through both branches of statistics in a structured, practical sequence. Descriptive statistics help you summarise and describe data — covering measures of centredness like mean, median, and mode, and measures of spread including variance, standard deviation, and boxplots. You'll then move to inferential statistics, where you'll use the normal distribution, the Central Limit Theorem, and hypothesis testing to draw conclusions about whole populations from sample data. Everything is applied in Microsoft Excel, so you're not just learning theory — you're building working spreadsheet models. Each module includes downloadable workbooks, toolbox summary references, and both practice and graded assignments to reinforce your skills step by step. The course closes with a final assignment that brings all four modules together, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate your full range of statistical and analytical skills in a single integrated Excel model. Who this is for: Students, business professionals, and anyone who works with data and wants to understand it more rigorously. No prior statistics or Excel expertise is required.

Status: Descriptive Analytics
Status: Data-Driven Decision-Making
BeginnerCourse12 hours

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MM

Reviewed May 20, 2026

The course was easy to learn and implement. The flash cards proved very helpful in retaining and revising the content.

RP

Reviewed Dec 6, 2025

Great to enroll this course, well structured and very well guided.

GR

Reviewed Jul 2, 2025

easily explained and well structured summaries for further references. definitely recommended.

SO

Reviewed Sep 3, 2025

I'm to be exposed to this course. I used to have challenges in Excel but I cannot use Excel, I can now manipulate it with some basic statistics.

WM

Reviewed Aug 20, 2025

المحتوي جيد ولكن بسيط لم يدخل في تفاصيل كثيرة، طريقة العرض رائعة والأسئلة متنوعة وتقيش فهم المتعلم للمحتوي بشكل متتابع لضمان فهمه للنقاط الحيوية

JQ

Reviewed Sep 18, 2025

Really good course. Videos are easy to understand. Makes it easy to implement what we have learned during assignments.

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