Statistical analysis in Google Sheets

This article was originally posted here. It was written by Steven Scott, a Bayesian statistician interested in data augmentation methods and Markov chain Monte Carlo. Steven has applied these methods to problems in educational testing, network security, biometrics, web browsing, e-commerce, and medical applications. "I'm happy to announce a new "Statistics" add-on for Google Sheets (the spreadsheet component of Google docs). The add-on provides statistics and data analysis functionality right in Google Sheets, so you don't need to download your data to a separate customized statistics application.