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Histograms Capital Credit Union. Issue: Analyze credit card balances for Capital Credit Union customers using a frequency distribution and histogram. Objective: Use Excel 2007 to develop a frequency distribution and histogram for credit card balances. Use ten class intervals.
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HistogramsCapital Credit Union Issue: Analyze credit card balances for Capital Credit Union customers using a frequency distribution and histogram. Objective: Use Excel 2007 to develop a frequency distribution and histogram for credit card balances. Use ten class intervals. Data file is Capital.xls
Histograms-Capital Credit Union • Open the Excel file “Capital.xls” • The file contains 300 observations – The last row is 302 – Column 2 (B) contains the balances
Histograms-Capital Credit Union c Use Excel’s “Max” function to determine the largest valueMax(b2:b301) Note: ignore the cell number in the RED circle
Histograms-Capital Credit Union c Use Excel’s Min function to determine the smallest value Min(b2:b301) Note: ignore the cell number in the RED circle
Histograms-Capital Credit Union • Compute Class Width • Compute range as Maximum – Minimum: 1493 – 99 = 1394 • Excel: 2^k >= n (300) • 2^8=256 and 2^9=512 • Take 10 instead of 9 because of convenience • Divide range by 10 to construct 10 classes: 1394 / 10 = 139.40 • Round up to $150.00 (width) • Intervals are: • $90 to < $240 (90+150) • $240 to < $390 • $390 to < $540 • Etc…
Histograms-Capital Credit Union Intervals are: $90 to < $239.99 $240 to < $389.99 $390 to < $539.99 $540 to < $689.99 $690 to < $839.99 Go on ….. ….. …. ….. …< $1589.99
Histograms-Capital Credit Union • Construct the Bins (The upper limits of each class • Intervals are: • $90 to < $239.99
Histograms-Capital Credit Union • Select the Data tab • Select Data Analysis • Select Histogram • OK
Histograms-Capital Credit Union Input Range is Column B. Bin Range is Column F – The range of Bins that you entered. Select New Worksheet Ply Select Chart Output OK
Histograms-Capital Credit Union Frequency legend This is Excel’s default output. It should be modified for most applications. The first change would be to delete the Frequency legend , change the Bins title to Balances and increase the size of the chart using the resize handles. Bins Title Sizing Handle
Excel’s default on a histogram is to include a More category. Remove the More category from the chart. Select the chart, right mouse click, Select Data, Edit Frequency. In the Edit Series dialog box, change Series Values to $B$11 rather than $B$12. Click OK.
Histograms-Capital Credit Union • Right click on any of the bars in the Histogram • Select Format Data Series
Histograms-Capital Credit Union Set Series Overlap and Gap Width to Zero to format the Histogram as shown
Histograms-Capital Credit Union To put border colors around the bars of the histogram , select Border Color, Choose Solid line, Select the Color arrow, and Choose Dark Blue, Text 2 Theme Color.
Histograms-Capital Credit Union Change the Bins categories to 0-239.99, 240-389.99, etc. and delete the More bins and frequency. Change the Histogram title to Credit Card Balances. See next slide for results of these changes.