The clever part I think is how I thought about getting a unique ID No. What I realised is that if we can determine a Unique ID Number for each order (Not the order No.) but a single number that is unique to the combination of items ordered, all we need to do is count the number of times that unique ID occurs and that will tell us what combination of boxes sold the most. I had a revelation this morning at about 2:30am whilst thinking about your Boxes problem.ĭon't as why I think about these sort of problems at 2:30am?Īnd after 5 minutes this morning it has proven fruitful See the screencast below to understand it better.ĭownload the statistical distributions example workbook and play with the formulas yourself. The frequency values for each band will be entered in the corresponding row. The formula we need to enter in our case is, =FREQUENCY(B6:B105,C6:C15) and when you press ctrl+shift+enter instead of just enter. How do you do that? Simple, select a range of cells, enter the formula in the first cell by start typing =frequency… and when you are done, just press ctrl+shift+enter and excel takes care of the rest. As you can guess, the formula returns an array of frequencies, so it must be entered in a bunch of cells together. Create a frequency formula and array enter it in to the spreadsheetĪssuming the test scores are in the range B6:B105 and bands are in the range c6:c15:įirst select the cells D6:D16 (10 cells, 1 each for the frequency between 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, … 90-100) and then enter the FREQUENCY() formula.įREQUENCY is an excel function that takes a range of values and a range of bands and tells you how the values are distributed in the bands. Define the bands for distributionĪssuming the test scores range from 0 to 100, you can define score bands like 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100 2. Also, download the statistical distributions example workbook and play with it. Just follow the below 2 steps to create statistical distribution / frequency of any set of values using excel. This is a part of our spreadcheats series of posts where we aim to solve 30 common work related excel problems, one at a time.

Today we will learn how you can make a statistical distribution of test scores using excel.

Excel has very powerful formulas and add-ins for performing almost any kind of statistical analysis.

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