Statistical Analysis

using Excel
BCA 2 N D SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: BCA 136
 Statistics
• Statistics is a branch of mathematics.

• It deals with the collection of data and the analysis of the

collected data.

• It aims to draw some useful conclusions from the data.

• Statistics is the study of collection, presentation, analysis

and interpretation of data.
 Importance of Statistics
1. Helps to evaluate claims based on numeric data.

2. Enhances our understanding by summarising and visualising

large amounts of data in concise format.

3. Helps in deriving conclusions, planning and taking crucial

decisions for future (using past data).

4. Helps to understand the relationships among data and the effect

of one variable on another.
Real-life Application of Statistics
1. Collecting COVID-19 data, analyzing the data to predict the
future trend of the epidemic.

2. Collecting student marks for various subjects and assessing

the pass-fail percentage.

3. Stock market prediction.

4. Weather Forecast.

5. Government policy planning.

Skills needed to deal with data
1. Data Cleaning and Preparation

2. Data Analysis

3. Statistical Knowledge

4. Data Visualization

5. Decision Making
1. Data Cleaning and Preparation
Handling missing values, categorical data, varying range

2. Data Analysis
Analyse data to find answers to some business problem,
identify important parts of data useful to your problem

3. Statistical Knowledge
Knowledge of which formulae to use to solve the problem

4. Data Visualization
Creation of summary tables, charts and graphs

5. Decision Making
IT tools for statistical analysis
1. Excel

2. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)

3. MATLAB

4. Statistical Analysis Software (SAS)

5. R statistical package
Importance of IT tools in statistics
1. Provide a large number of built-in functions

2. Faster processing of large amounts of data

3. Help in organizing data in a more understandable manner

4. Provide a variety of visualization techniques

5. Make it easy to incorporate changes in data and update the

associated results accordingly

6. Saves human effort and time

 Introduction to Excel
• It is an application program developed by Microsoft.

• It is a spreadsheet program that is used to record data in the form

of tables.

• It helps in data preparation, filtering, manipulation, analysis,

summarisation and visualization.

• It is widely used in academia and industry for performing statistical

analysis of data.
Basic Structure of Excel
• Cell • Workbook

• Row • Worksheet

• Column • Tabs

• Cell Address • Formula Bar

• Range • Address Bar

Tabs in Excel
Basic Functions in Excel
• SUM

• MIN

• MAX

• AVERAGE

• MEDIAN

• COUNT