Chapter 9
Using the Statistics Functions
In This Chapter
Counting items in a data set
Using means, modes, and medians
Finding values, ranks, and percentiles
Calculating standard deviations and variances
Using normal distributions
Using t-distributions and f-distributions
Understanding binomial distributions
Using chi-square distributions
Excel supplies a bunch of statistical functions … more than 70, in fact. These functions help you dig more deeply into the characteristics of data that you’ve stored in an Excel worksheet, list, or pivot table. In this chapter, I discuss and illustrate each of the statistical functions that you’re likely to use. I also briefly describe some of the very ...
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