title: [Biostatistics with Excel software or similar].
abstract: Many practitioners, especially young ones, find biostatistical analysis fastidious. However, there is a very usual tool for most basic calculations: Excel((c)) and similar software. This article proposes to help the reader, step by step, carry out many statistical functions. Although this paper does not avoid the advice of a specialist, it lets the reader become familiar with the rules of basic statistics and calculus.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, centre hospitalier Lyon-Sud, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Bénite cedex, France. sebastien.couraud@chu-lyon.fr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Couraud
mesh_terms: D056808:Biostatistics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software