2nd Edition
Basic Computational Techniques for Data Analysis An Exploration in MS Excel
This book is designed to equip students to navigate through MS Excel and basic data computation methods which are essential tools in research or professional settings and in classrooms. It illustrates the concepts used in research and data analysis and economic and financial decision making in business and in daily life.
Biography
D Narayana is Former Director of the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram, and Chairman of Kerala Public Expenditure Review Committee. He is a renowned economist, researcher, and statistician. He holds a PhD from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He held the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Chair at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram from 2001 to 2012. He has published numerous articles in reputed national and international journals on health, state finance, decentralization, issues of SC/ST Communities, agriculture, irrigation, and migrant labour and has authored and co-edited many books. He also served as a member of many important committees, including the Expert Committee on Goods and Services Tax (GST), committee for revising the rates for the medical procedures under the centrally sponsored Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), and the Contributory Pension Review Committee, constituted by the Government of Kerala.
Sharad Ranjan is a professor in economics at Zakir Husain Delhi College (Evening) (University of Delhi) with a teaching experience of nearly three decades. He is a PhD from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published many research papers in various journals and has also authored five books. He has conducted workshops on financial literacy for the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as a resource person and has also co-supervised and evaluated PhD theses.
Nupur Tyagi is assistant professor at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She completed her post-graduation and MPhil from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest are finance and accounting.
“The book is a self-composite in terms of explaining the concept, definition and computation of statistical methods with numerical examples and with MS Excel. . . . In addition to beginning students, researchers, and teachers in social sciences, business, and management, the book is useful to all in other subjects if they wish to pursue a quantitative approach.”
Professor M R Narayana, Fiscal Policy Institute, Bengaluru
“Basic Computational Techniques for Data Analysis: An Exploration in MS Excel (second edition) is quite handy for mastering computational techniques in Excel and could be a lifelong companion, much beyond a student’s educational career. The authors D Narayana, Sharad Ranjan, and Nupur Tyagi, have filled a gap that was lying vacant for more than three decades.”
Sudip Mohapatra, Senior Economist, IMF
“This book by Professors Narayana, Ranjan, and Tyagi skillfully and uniquely combines Excel-based tools for statistical and financial analysis with the revised version, even including ways for growth rate calculation and use of Census data gainfully for research. It is a very useful text for economics students and communicators to help them make meaningful inferences from data.”
Professor Sukhpal Singh, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
“This is an important and comprehensive work on various data analysis techniques. It provides an in-depth and clear understanding on the use of multiple data with a systematic and stepwise explanation of statistical and financial concepts – a must-read for everyone in the domain.”
Dr K S James, Director and Senior Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai
'A handy and useful book on data analysis & techniques. It offers clarity on various financial and statistical concepts. This is useful to researchers, beginners in the area and all those involved in data analysis.'
Rashmi Arora, Associate Professor, University of Bradford, UK.
