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The document describes an exercise in descriptive statistics using a sample of online users at a library over a 5-day period. It instructs the user to use Excel's Data Analysis tools to calculate measures like mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and range. It also provides weekly circulation data for a library and instructs the user to create a line chart in Excel showing the weekly totals over a year. The results, including the descriptive statistics output and line chart, are to be saved in an Excel workbook file.

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Assignment On Excel

The document describes an exercise in descriptive statistics using a sample of online users at a library over a 5-day period. It instructs the user to use Excel's Data Analysis tools to calculate measures like mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and range. It also provides weekly circulation data for a library and instructs the user to create a line chart in Excel showing the weekly totals over a year. The results, including the descriptive statistics output and line chart, are to be saved in an Excel workbook file.

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Exercise in Descriptive Statistics

Directions: Part 1
Column A below contains a sample of observations of the number of online users of a large
academic library's online public-access catalog (OPAC) at 50 randomly determined times
over a 5-day period. You are to use tools available in Microsoft Excel to determine the
mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, and selected other measures using
this sample.

In order to obtain the specified sample statistics, you should use


Excel's Data-Analysis tools. To activate these, choose Tools→Add-Ins and click on the box
next to Analysis ToolPak. If this option is not available, you will need to add it to your Excel
installation. Use Excel Help to learn how to get the necessary additional files from your
Excel or Microsoft Office CD-ROM. The basic Analysis ToolPak (not the
Analysis ToolPak - VBA) is all you need for this exercise.

Once you have obtained the Data-Analysis tools, click on Tools→Data Analysis. Then
in the Data-Analysis popup, select Descriptive Statistics and click OK. Then in the
Descriptive Statistics popup, identify the Input Range holding the sample observations, and
and check the Summary statistics box. Excel will then open a new spreadsheet page in
which the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and range (along with some other
statistics) will be displayed. (Note: You may need to adjust the column widths in the results
page in order to display the results readably.)

Directions: Part 2
Columns C and D below represent one year's worth of weekly circulation totals for a small
public library. The librarian, who has spent a deal of effort during this year to sell to the
community the idea of using the library for meetings, informal classes, children's programs,
etc., has hoped that that effort would pay off in terms of increased circulation.

You are to use the circulation data below to form


a line chart of the weekly circulation totals To do this, you need simply to select the
column labeled "Circulation", from the label itself down through the data for Week 52. With
the label and the data selected, click on Insert→Chart→Line. Excel will offer you its default
line chart. Double-click on it, and then click on Finish. Excel will display a line chart based
on the weekly circulation data. When you have finished examining the chart, right-click on
the chart and select Copy. Then move to the worksheet where you have stored the output
from the Descriptive Statistics tool in Part 1 of this assignment, and paste the chart on to
this worksheet. Arrange the chart so that both it and the output from the Descriptive
Statistics tool are easily readable. Save this page of results as a Microsoft Excel
Workbook file, i.e., save it with the extension ".xls".

No. of
Online
Users Week Circulation
1 1 63
24 2 99
27 3 95
29 4 90
12 5 103
57 6 92
86 7 86
85 8 76
90 9 105
4 10 110
34 11 127
38 12 86
22 13 101
11 14 93
37 15 62
74 16 80
73 17 96
22 18 142
24 19 93
46 20 99
12 21 107
100 22 91
29 23 116
38 24 129
24 25 105
65 26 97
0 27 104
28 28 109
42 29 103
57 30 85
10 31 97
121 32 88
108 33 124
45 34 132
32 35 119
70 36 102
122 37 93
6 38 120
83 39 103
57 40 93
24 41 147
117 42 143
31 43 138
83 44 96
120 45 103
57 46 120
57 47 93
121 48 145
35 49 119
92 50 98
51 120
52 101
1
24
27
29
12
57
86
85
90
4
34
38
22
11
37
74
73
22
24
46
12
100
29
38
24
65
0
28
42
57
10
121
108
45
32
70
122
6
83
57
24
117
31
83
120
57
57
121
35
92
No of Online Users

Mean 51.64
Standard Error 5.08216248364848
Median 40
Mode 57
Standard Deviation 35.9363155527971
Sample Variance 1291.4187755102
Kurtosis -0.758468055775499
Skewness 0.567855987261963
Range 122
Minimum 0
Maximum 122
Sum 2582
Count 50

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Circulation
140

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40

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