1. Guide to Using Excel 2007 For Basic Statistical Applications To Accompany Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, 8th Ed. Chapter 3: Describing Data Using Numerical Measures By Groebner, Shannon, Fry, & Smith Prentice-Hall Publishing Company Copyright, 2011

2. Chapter 3 Excel Examples Population Mean Population Mean Population Mean Population Mean Foster City Hotel Foster City Hotel Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Central Tendency Colleges and Universities Measures of Variation Measures of Variation Measures of Variation Measures of Variation Colleges and Universities More Examples

3. Chapter 3 Excel Examples (continued) Empirical Rule - Empirical Rule - Empirical Rule - Empirical Rule - Burger N’ Brew

4. Population Mean Foster City Hotel Issue: Determine the mean nightly revenue for the Foster City Hotel. Objective: Use Excel 2007 to calculate the population mean revenue Data File is Foster.xls

5. Population Mean – Foster City Hotel Open the Excel file called Foster.xls

6. Population Mean – Foster City Hotel Select Formulas Select More Functions Select Statistical Select Average

7. Population Mean – Foster City Hotel

8. Optional method: Select Data Select Data Analysis Select Descriptive Statistics from the next dialog box

9. Population Mean – Foster City Hotel Highlight Column C to fill the Input Range Box Select either New Worksheet or Output Range to decide where the output is placed Select Summary Statistics OK

10. Population Mean – Foster City Hotel Mean Revenue

11. Measures of Central Tendency – Colleges and Universities Issue: What is the distribution of out-of-state tuition costs for US colleges and universities Objective: Use Excel 2007 to develop a histograms for tuition costs The data file is Colleges and Universities.xls

12. Measures of Central Tendency: Colleges and Universities Open the file Colleges and Universities.xls

13. Measures of Central Tendency: Colleges and Universities Insert a column for the Bins – label it appropriately Select the Data Tab Select Data Analysis Select Histogram Input Range: L1:L719 Bin Range: O1:O11 Select New Worksheet Ply OK

14. Measures of Central Tendency: Colleges and Universities Enlarge the Histogram by pulling on the “handles” Right click on bars and Use the Format Data Series Option Setting the Gap Width to zero

15. Measures of Central Tendency: Colleges and universities

16. Descriptive Statistics: Colleges and Universities Issue: Determine the Descriptive Statistics for out-of-state tuition costs for US colleges and universities Objective: Use Excel 2007 to calculate the descriptive statistics for out-of-state tuition costs. Data file is Colleges and Universities

17. Descriptive Statistics – Colleges and Universities Open the file Colleges and Universities

18. Descriptive Statistics – Colleges and Universities Select the Data tab Select Data Analysis Select Descriptive Statistics OK

19. Descriptive Statistics – Colleges and Universities Input Range = L1:L719 Grouped by Columns Labels in First Row New Worksheet Ply Summary Statistics

20. Descriptive Statistics – Colleges and Universities Mean Median Mode

21. Measures of Variation: Colleges and Universities Issue: Determine the Measures of Variation for out-of-state tuition costs for US colleges and universities Objective: Use Excel 2007 to calculate Measures of Variation for out-of-state tuition costs. Data file is Colleges and Universities

22. Measured of Variation – Colleges and Universities Open the file Colleges and Universities

23. Measures of Variation – Colleges and Universities Input Range = L1:L719 Grouped by Columns Labels in First Row New Worksheet Ply Summary Statistics

24. Measures of Variation – Colleges and Universities Select the Data tab Select Data Analysis Select Descriptive Statistics OK

25. Measures of Variation – Colleges and Universities Input Range = L1:L719 Grouped by Columns Labels in First Row New Worksheet Ply Summary Statistics

26. Measures of Variation – Colleges and Universities Standard Deviation Variance Range

27. Empirical Rule - Burger N’ Brew Issue: Analyze the Phoenix Burger Sales Distribution Objective: Use Excel 2007 to compute graphs and numerical measures necessary for using the empirical rule to analyze sales at Burger N’ Brew Data file is BurgerNBrew.xls

28. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Open the data file called BurgerNBrew.xls. The file contains data for 365 days

29. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew First develop histogram – Class width = 2. Form bins

30. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Select the Data Tab Select Data Analysis Select Histogram OK

31. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Input Range- Chilli-Burgers Sold Bin Range – the Bins just created Select New Worksheet Ply Select Chart Output OK

32. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew This is the default output – now to reformat the Histogram a bit

33. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Looks better? Now to compute the statistics

34. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Select the Data Tab Select Data Analysis Select Descriptive Statistics OK

35. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew Input Range is the column to be analyzed Select New Workbook Select Summary Statistics

36. Empirical Rule – Burger N’ Brew And the statistics are: The Empirical rule tells us – 68% falls between 15.12 +/- 3.13 95% falls between 15.12 +/- 2(3.13) 99% falls between 15.12 +/- 3(3.13)