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1.3<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>in</strong> Excel<br />

When conduct<strong>in</strong>g an analysis of realistic amounts of data, it is tiresome, mundane, and even<br />

unfeasible to carry out computations by hand. Microsoft Excel is by far a more powerful and<br />

accessible piece of software that does this all <strong>for</strong> us. As such, we seek to better understand how it<br />

works <strong>in</strong> this section. All images below come from the most recent version of Microsoft Excel.<br />

Excel is a spreadsheet-based software. This means that each entry, or cell, represents one piece<br />

of <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation that is all a part of a larger grid of cells. A cell may conta<strong>in</strong> numerical or textual<br />

<strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation.<br />

1.3.1 Sum(), Average(), M<strong>in</strong>(), and Max()<br />

Eventually, you will learn to make beautiful spreadsheets, but we are now only concerned with<br />

some basic features. Let‟s beg<strong>in</strong> by enter<strong>in</strong>g the follow<strong>in</strong>g account<strong>in</strong>g data from Section 1.2:<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 21

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