As mentioned earlier, Excel has a large number of statistical functions for data analy-
sis. We have simply looked at some of these functions used to calculate the descriptive
statistics.
Random Number Generation
All of the functions with the exception of some related to date and time that we have
discussed in this book so far, have one characteristic in common; the value returned
by the function is always the same for the same argument values. There are, however,
situations where we would like the function to return a different answer each time it is
used. Such situations are an integral component of a ...
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