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Excel Templates: A Helpful Tool for Teaching Statistics

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  • Alejandro Quintela-del-Río
  • Mario Francisco-Fernández

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This article describes a free, open-source collection of templates for the popular Excel (2013, and later versions) spreadsheet program. These templates are spreadsheet files that allow easy and intuitive learning and the implementation of practical examples concerning descriptive statistics, random variables, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Although they are designed to be used with Excel, they can also be employed with other free spreadsheet programs (changing some particular formulas). Moreover, we exploit some possibilities of the ActiveX controls of the Excel Developer Menu to perform interactive Gaussian density charts. Finally, it is important to note that they can be often embedded in a web page, so it is not necessary to employ Excel software for their use. These templates have been designed as a useful tool to teach basic statistics and to carry out data analysis even when the students are not familiar with Excel. Additionally, they can be used as a complement to other analytical software packages. They aim to assist students in learning statistics, within an intuitive working environment. Supplementary materials with the Excel templates are available online.

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  • Alejandro Quintela-del-Río & Mario Francisco-Fernández, 2017. "Excel Templates: A Helpful Tool for Teaching Statistics," The American Statistician, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(4), pages 317-325, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:amstat:v:71:y:2017:i:4:p:317-325
    DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1186115
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