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Because intensive calculation is often part and parcel of the statistician’s tool set, many people have the misconception that statistics is about number crunching. Number crunching is just one small step on the path to sound decisions, however.

By shouldering the number crunching load, software increases your speed of travel down that path. Some software packages are specialized for statistical analysis and contain many of the tools that statisticians use. Although not marketed specifically as a statistical package, Excel provides a number of these tools, which is why I wrote this book.

I just said that number crunching is a small step on the path to sound decisions. The most important part are the concepts statisticians work with, and that’s what I talk about for most of the rest of this chapter.