MAC Tutorial 1 - How to get Descriptive...

41000 - Business Statistics Chicago Booth Professor: Drew Creal

STATISTICS IN EXCEL - TUTORIAL FOR MAC Tutorial 1. How to Get Descriptive Statistics

1. Open StatPlus. You will only see the command bar in the upper part of your screen. No window

will open. It will look as follows

2. Open a data Excel File. For example, you can open the beer.txt file.

3. Go to StatPlus and click on Statistics, which is on the StatPlus Bar. It will look as follows:

4. Select Basic Statistics and Tables and then Select Descriptive Statistics:

5. The following window will pop up. Now you need to select the data you want descriptive statistics for. To do this click on the red arrow you will go to Excel.

6. Select the data you want descriptive statistics for.

7. Go back to StatPlus. To do this you may have to follow one of the following options (maybe you

know a better one): a. click on the StatPlus icon that is at the bottom of your screen

b. click on the Apple symbol on the top left had corner, go to Recent Items and then go to StatPlus

8. Then you will see that in the “variable” field you will have the selected data. Hit OK. Notice that the option “Labels in first row” is ticked. This means that I should have selected the data from cell A1. In this example, since I left the option on, but I said that the variables started in A2, I will lose the first observation.

9. After hitting OK a new Excel window will appear with the results.