Assignment – Excel
Using the Excel Sheet and descriptive statistics page; you will write up your analysis for the 20 participants.
This week, you learned about the statistical software applications used to analyze data for research analysis. For this week’s discussion, you will use Excel sheet provide to run descriptive statistics, create graphs and respond to the following:
How could you use Excel descriptive statistics for data analysis research?
What are your plans for learning more about Excel and how will the information you learned about this software be of benefit in your future analysis of research data?
Refer to this week’s readings and video tutorials before starting this two part discussion question assignment.
Step 1: Entering Data
Open a blank worksheet in the Excel program
You will now use Excel to view a sample dataset
Dataset Options
In many cases, researchers may have the data from their study in another software package like Microsoft Excel. However, if the data is not available in a software spreadsheet you can manually enter the data. Option 2: Manual Data Entry
In the Worksheet window, type “Age” in C1. Enter the numbers as shown in the dataset below. Enter the remaining data as shown below (set up your column labels i.e., variable). The measure reflects math anxiety and the study variables (cringe, uneasy, afraid, worried, understand) the math anxiety range is from 1–5 with low being the least and 5 the highest.
Age
Cringe
Uneasy
Afraid
Worried
Understand
28
5
3
4
4
3
34
2
5
3
2
1
25
4
4
4
2
5
56
3
4
3
1
2
23
5
4
3
3
4
29
1
5
3
2
3
30
3
3
5
2
5
59
2
5
5
1
2
45
4
2
5
3
3
38
1
2
4
1
1
33
3
2
4
3
2
47
4
2
3
4
5
24
1
5
3
4
4
29
5
4
2
1
3
53
3
1
5
2
1
48
4
4
1
5
3
27
2
5
4
3
4
34
4
4
3
2
5
26
4
5
2
3
2
36
5
5
5
4
3
Step 2: Click on Excel tab for Add Ins; if you do not see statistics; you will need to open the file option; click on Add ins; click on ok; a box will open which will allow you to choose Statistics package; place a check mark in the box and click ok. How to Run Descriptive Statistics
Now that your data is in Excel, you will look at the descriptive statistics for this dataset. Select the data in all the columns except the top that has words for the columns; however you have the file already completed and a picture of the descriptive statistics.
See end of page for a copy of the excel sheet and descriptive statistics output.
