The interquartile mean is a measure of central tendency. While all values in a data set are used to calculate the mean, only the interquartile range -- the central portion of a data set -- is used to ...

In your school life, you have learned about average and the method to calculate it. The formula to calculate the average is very simple. You just have to add all the values in the given data and ...

Calculating data fluctuations-- also called variance -- is a multi-step process that requires total accuracy. Excel 2010 provides two basic formulas for calculating fluctuations, depending on whether ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

Calculating Simple Interest is an excellent method to judge your savings in advance. However, calculating it for various interests and principal sums could be complex. This is where Excel comes to ...

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