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How to Get Descriptive Statistics in Excel

How to Get Descriptive Statistics in Excel? (Quick and Easy Way )

If you’re working with large datasets in excel, getting Descriptive Statistics for this data set could be helpful too.

 

Descriptive Statistics quickly summarizes your data and gives you a few data points that you can use to understand the entire data set quickly.

 

While you can also calculate each of these statistical values individually, using the descriptive statistics option in Excel quickly gives you all this data in one place (and it’s a lot faster than utilizing different formulas to calculate different values).

In this short tutorial,  Excel VBA show you how to get Descriptive Statistics in Excel.

Descriptive Statistics in Excel

To get the Descriptive Statistics in Excel, you must have the Data Analysis Toolpak enabled.

You can check whether you already have it allowed by going to the Data tab.

If you see the Data Analysis option in the Analysis group, you already have it enabled (and you can ignore the next section and go directly to the ‘Getting Descriptive Analysis’ section).

Data analysis option in Excel

 

If you do not see the data analysis option in the data tab, follow the steps in the next section to enable it.

Enabling Data Analysis Toolpak

Below are the steps to enable the Data Analysis Toolpak in MS Excel:

  1. Open any Excel document
  2. Click the File tab

Click the File option

3 Click on Options. will open the Excel Options dialog box

Click on Options

4 In the Excel Options dialog box, click on Add-ins in the left pane.

 

Click on Add-ins

 

5 . Select’ Excel Add-ins’ from the Manage drop-down (which is at the bottom of the dialog box).

Select Excel Add-ins

  1. Click on the Go button
  1. In the Add-ins dialog box that shows up, check the Analysis Toolpak option.

Select Analysis Toolpak

 

The other steps would enable the Data Analysis toolpak, and you will be competent to use it on all your Excel Workbooks.

 

Getting the Descriptive Analysis

Now that the Data Analysis Toolpak is enabled, let’s see how to get the descriptive statistics.

Suppose you have a data set as shown below where I have the sales data of a company’s particular products. For this data, I want to get descriptive statistics.

Dataset to find descriptive statistics

Below are the steps to do this:

  1. Click the Data tab
  2. In the Analysis group, click on Data Analysis

Data analysis option in Excel

In the Data Analysis dialog box that extends, click on Descriptive Statistics.

Select Descriptive statistics

 

In the Descriptive Statistics dialog box, specify the input range that has the data. Note that I have only used Column B as the data origin (as you can only use numeric data as the input here).

Specify the input range

  1. If your data has headers, check the ‘Labels in first row’ option
check Labels in first row
Select the New Worksheet Ply option (this will give the result in a new sheets)
Select New Worksheet Ply
  1. Select the statistics options you want (you need to select at least one and can select all four)

Select the statistics you want in the report

The above steps would insert a new sheet, and you will get the statistics as shown below:

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