How to Use Excel to Create a Bell Curve By James Highland, eHow Contributor While it may seem simple in its concept, drawing a basic bell curve in Microsoft Excel has long been a challenge for students and business professionals alike. Of course, Excel doesn't know what shape you want charted. So if you want a bell curve chart, you first have to enter the right data. In this tutorial, we select a range of numbers corresponding to a Mean average and a Standard Deviation. After applying Excel's Normal Distribution function to those numbers, Excel gives you a perfectly-formed bell curve. While a bell curve does require quite a lot of data, Excel 2013's AutoFill feature automates must of the work for you. Excel needs appropriate data to illustrate a bell curve. (Image courtesy of Microsoft)
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
How to Use Excel to Create a Bell CurveBy James Highland, eHow Contributor
While it may seem simple in its concept, drawing a basic bell curve in
Microsoft Excel has long been a challenge for students and business
professionals alike. Of course, Excel doesn't know what shape you want
charted. So if you want a bell curve chart, you first have to enter the right
data. In this tutorial, we select a range of numbers corresponding to a Mean
average and a Standard Deviation. After applying Excel's Normal Distribution
function to those numbers, Excel gives you a perfectly-formed bell curve.
While a bell curve does require quite a lot of data, Excel 2013's AutoFill
feature automates must of the work for you.
Excel needs appropriate data to illustrate a bell curve. (Image courtesy of Microsoft)
Other People Are Reading
How to Make a Frequency Chart
How to Calculate a Bell Curve
Step 1:
Decide on a Mean and a Standard Deviation. In this example, use a Mean of
60 and a Standard Deviation of 10. To create a nicely shaped bell curve, you
need to enter data that is three standard deviations below the Mean and
three standard deviations above the Mean. Simply put, this means the
numbers 30 to 90 in a single column.
Use a Mean of 60 and a Standard Deviation of 10. (Image courtesy of Microsoft)