41000 - Business Statistics Chicago Booth Professor: Drew Creal

STATISTICS IN EXCEL - TUTORIAL FOR MAC Tutorial 2. How to Make a Histogram

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 Histogram:

5. The following window will pop up. Now you need to select the data you want a histogram of. To do this click on the red arrow icon by the field “Continuous Variables” you will go to Excel.

6. Select the data you want the histogram of.

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 “continuous variables” field you will have the selected data. Hit OK.

9. A new Excel window will appear with the results.

10. Let’s modify the bin size. For this we need a Bin Range Variable. This will be on Excel as well. For example,

11. In the histogram window on StatPlus you will see the field “bin range”. Click on the red arrow

icon to go back to Excel.

12. Select the bin range variable values.

13. Go back to StatPlus. You will see the selected data ranges. Then hit OK

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14. The results will now be