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Assignment 5. Descriptive stats and Graphing using Excel 2010. Open Excel 2010. File New Blank worksheet Create. New worksheet. Keep this worksheet open. Go to Word file. Copy the data from the Assignment 5 Word file. New worksheet.
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Assignment 5 Descriptive stats and Graphing using Excel 2010
Open Excel 2010 • File • New • Blank worksheet • Create
New worksheet Keep this worksheet open
Go to Word file Copy the data from the Assignment 5 Word file
New worksheet Back to Excel to paste. Click on the first icon – Keep source formatting (K)
Paste …and save the file.
Average Type: =average( In the cell below first column then left click/hold while highlighting (blue box) all the data for the Female column. Finish by closing parenthesis and =average(B4:B11) clicking Enter
Standard Error of the Mean Below the mean cell type: =stdev( Highlight the data and close parenthesis. Type: /sqrt(8) It should look something like this: =stdev(B4:B11)/sqrt(8) Then hit enter.
Extending formula cells Left click and hold to select the mean and SEM cells for the 1st column.
Extending formula cells Click and hold lower left corner and extend over to expand to the next column.
Descriptive stats done! Next let’s make the graph…
Making the bar graph • Insert • Column • 2-D column left box (clustered column)
Excel thinks for itself If Excel does something automatically like this… Click on select data and we’ll correct Excel’s error
Excel thinks for itself Remove any series that Excel auto-made and let’s start from scratch.
Your first bar (not drink-related) Click Add Series name “Female” Delete ={1} from series values and click on the mean for the first column (Females).
Your second bar Click Add again Series name “Males” Delete ={1} from series values and click on the mean for the second column (Males).
Clean up… Right click the vertical axis and select Format axis
Clean up… • Number • Change decimimal places: to zero
Axis labels • Click on graph • Layout • Axis title • Primary vertical axis • Rotated title
Axis labels Type ‘Absolute Heading Error’
Axis labels • Axis title • Primary Horizontal Axis • Title below axis
Axis labels Type ‘Group’ and delete the number 1 above the axis label
Error Bars • Layout • Error bars • More error bar options
Error Bars • Select female • Custom • Specify values • Delete ={1} from each box • Click on the SEM for the first mean in both positive and negative values
Error Bars • Click on 2nd bar and repeat the custom bar selection as performed for the first bar.
Error Bars • Choose the right SEM value for the Male column.
Finished You may play around with the formatting but I want to see correct values represented in the graph