While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

Using Microsoft Excel you can create charts based on the data and formulas entered in a worksheet. Enter a sample range of numbers in Excel as if you were at an event asking people their ages, for ...

Use Excel to calculate daily returns and standard deviation to gauge stock volatility. Annualize volatility by multiplying daily standard deviation by the square root of 252. Remember, standard ...

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To teach you the process of making a bell curve in Excel, I have taken sample data of 10 students’ marks in a particular subject. The marks are out of 100. You can calculate the average in any cell, I ...

There are two formulae for standard deviation. \(s = \sqrt {\frac{{\sum {{{(X - \bar X)}^2}} }}{{n - 1}}}\) (where n is the sample size). The second formula is a re ...