{"id":103185,"date":"2021-01-21T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=103185"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:56:22","slug":"excel-descriptive-statistics-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Descriptive Statistics Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Perhaps the most common Data Analysis tool that you&#8217;ll use in Excel is the one for calculating descriptive statistics. To see how this works, for example, you may have the scores of 14 participants for a test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tool.gif\" alt=\"excel-descriptive-statistics-tool\" class=\"wp-image-25661\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To generate descriptive statistics for these scores, execute the following steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On the Data tab, click <strong>Data Analysis<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-01.gif\" alt=\"excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-01\" class=\"wp-image-25662\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Select Descriptive Statistics and click OK.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-02.gif\" alt=\"excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-02\" class=\"wp-image-25663\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Select the range A2:A15 as the Input Range.<\/li><li>Select cell C1 as the Output Range.<\/li><li>Make sure Summary statistics is checked.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-03.gif\" alt=\"excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-03\" class=\"wp-image-25664\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Click OK and the result is as<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/lms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-04.gif\" alt=\"excel-descriptive-statistics-tool-04\" class=\"wp-image-25660\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the statistics that Excel calculates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><td><strong>Statistic<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Mean<\/td><td>Shows the arithmetic mean of the sample data.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Standard Error<\/td><td>Shows the standard error of the data set (a measure of the difference between the predicted value and the actual value).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Median<\/td><td>Shows the middle value in the data set (the value that separates the largest half of the values from the smallest half of the values).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mode<\/td><td>Shows the most common value in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Standard Deviation<\/td><td>Shows the sample standard deviation measure for the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sample Variance<\/td><td>Shows the sample variance for the data set (the squared standard deviation).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kurtosis<\/td><td>Shows the kurtosis of the distribution.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Skewness<\/td><td>Shows the skewness of the data set\u2019s distribution.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Range<\/td><td>Shows the difference between the largest and smallest values in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Minimum<\/td><td>Shows the smallest value in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Maximum<\/td><td>Shows the largest value in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sum<\/td><td>Adds all the values in the data set together to calculate the sum.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Count<\/td><td>Counts the number of values in a data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Largest(X)<\/td><td>Shows the largest X value in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Smallest(X)<\/td><td>Shows the smallest X value in the data set.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Confidence Level(X) Percentage<\/td><td>Shows the confidence level at a given percentage for the data set values.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most common Data Analysis tool that you&#8217;ll use in Excel is the one for calculating descriptive statistics. 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