Chapter 41. Summarizing data by using histograms
Questions answered in this chapter:
People often say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Can I use Excel to create a picture (called a histogram) that summarizes the values in a data set?
What are some common shapes of histograms?
What can I learn by comparing histograms from different data sets?
The ability to summarize a large data set is important. The three tools used most often to summarize data in Microsoft Excel are histograms, descriptive statistics, and PivotTables. This chapter discusses the use of histograms for summarizing data. It covers descriptive statistics in Chapter 42 and PivotTables in Chapter 43.
Answers to this chapter’s questions
This section provides the answers to the questions ...
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