An Introduction to Excel’s Normal Distribution Functions
(Download the workbook.)
When a visitor asked me how to generate a random number from a Normal distribution she set me to thinking about doing statistics...
How to Create Normal Curves With Shaded Areas in Excel
Adding shaded areas to normal curves like this is a challenging task in Excel charting. But once you know how, it's not difficult to...
Advanced SUMIFS Calculations with Criteria Lists
In Part 1 of this series, you learned how to use criteria lists for marketing data. In Part 2, we looked at financial data.
And now, in Part...
What Inflation? How Excel Charts Can Help You Avoid Fake Economic News
The business news on Valentine's Day, 2018, was dominated by talk of rising inflation. A search of Google News showed 67,100 results for the...
This Excel Analytical Charting Strategy Reveals an Economic Warning
With normal charts, you find data and then you plot it. But with analytical charts, you transform your data in various ways to discover...
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Getting Radical with Excel
It's time to think about Excel in a radical new way—when we use it to work with business or economic data.
It's time, in fact,...
How Fast Is Too Fast?
(Originally published in Inc Magazine.)
What typically tops the list of worries of the chief executive officers of fast growing companies? Financing that growth, according...
How to Smooth Data by Using the TREND Function
Years ago, I read that Prof. William S. Cleveland had suggested that data could be smoothed by calculating a centered trendline through adjacent data—a...
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