[...]... Quirk, Excel 2010 for Educational and Psychological Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-2071-2_1, # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 (1.1) 1 2 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean The symbol S is the Greek letter sigma, which stands for “sum.” It tells you to add up all the scores that are indicated by the letter X and then... geometry test (practical example) 4 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean 1.4 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean Objective: To find the sample size (n), mean, standard deviation (STDEV), and standard error of the mean (s.e.) for these data Start your computer and click on the Excel 2010 icon to open a blank Excel spreadsheet Enter the data... 1.19: Fig 1.19 Worksheet data for Chap 1: practice problem #3 (a) Use Excel to create a table for these data, and at the right of the table, use Excel to find the sample size, mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean for these data Label your answers and round off the mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean to three decimal places using number format (b) Print the result... 1.18: Fig 1.18 Worksheet data for Chap 1: practice problem #2 (a) Use Excel to create a table of these ratings, and at the right of the table use Excel to find the sample size, mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean for these data Label your answers and round off the mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean to two decimal places using number format (b) Print the result... data appear in Fig 1.17: Fig 1.17 Worksheet data for Chap 1: practice problem #1 (a) Use Excel to the right of the table to find the sample size, mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean for these data Label your answers and round off the mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean to two decimal places; use number format for these three figures (b) Print the result on a... worksheet 2.1 Creating Frame Numbers for Generating Random Numbers Objective: To create the frame numbers for generating random numbers A3: A4: FRAME NO 1 Now, create the frame numbers in column A with the Home/Fill commands that were explained in the first chapter of this book (see Sect 1.4.1) so that the frame T Quirk, Excel 2010 for Educational and Psychological Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical... 1.3 Standard Error of the Mean 1.3 3 Standard Error of the Mean The formula for the standard error of the mean, s.e., (which we will use SX to  symbolize) is S s.e: ¼SX ¼ pffiffiffi  n (1.3) To find s.e., all you need to do is to take the standard deviation, STDEV, and divide it by the square root of n, where n stands for the “number of numbers” that you have in your data set In the example under the standard... Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean Fig 1.5 Example of how to center information within cells Click on this icon to center the information in the selected cells (see Fig 1.6) Fig 1.6 Final result of centering information in the cells 7 8 1 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean Since you will need to refer to the geometry test scores in your formulas,... the Standard Error of the Mean Objective: To find the standard error of the mean using a formula for these eight data points F15: ¼F12/SQRT (8) This command should insert the number 4.958533 into cell F15 (see Fig 1.9) Fig 1.9 Example of using Excel formulas for sample size, mean, STDEV, and s.e 1.4 Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean 11 Important note: Throughout... for figures that are dollar amounts and (2) using three decimal places for figures 1.7 Formatting Numbers in Currency Format (Two Decimal Places) 15 Close your spreadsheet by using File/Close and open a blank Excel spreadsheet by using File/New/Create (on the far right of your screen) 1.7 Formatting Numbers in Currency Format (Two Decimal Places) Objective: To change the format of figures to dollar format . x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Excel 2010 for Educational and Psychological Statistics