
You can calculate the median separately by using the MEDIAN function. The median will be the number that lies in the middle of the values, in my case, the answer is 50.3. Say we sorted our data in ascending order from smallest to largest. You can calculate the standard error yourself by taking the standard deviation and dividing it by the square root of the count. The higher the standard error, the higher the variability. The standard error is a measure of the variability of sample means in a sampling distribution of means. To calculate the mean value youself, you can use the AVERAGE function.

This is where you add all the values up in your sample and divide by the number of values in the sample. The first result is the mean, or average, value. I’ll now go over and explain each output. How to interpret the descriptive statistics resultsīelow are some descriptive statistics I have based on some example data. So that’s the setup done, now press the OK button to perform the descriptive statistics. The Confidence Level for Mean, Kth Largest and Kth Smallest options are optional, and I will explain more about these later. At a minimum, you will want to select the Summary Statistics. Underneath, you can tick the various descriptive statistic options that you want to perform.

If they were entered into rows instead, then select the rows option.


If you have the values stacked in a column, then these will be grouped by columns. Next, need to tell Excel how your data are entered in your sheet. For the input range, this is where you enter the range of cells containing your data.
