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Guide For Determining The Confidence Interval Using Excel

This document provides instructions for calculating a confidence interval using Excel. It describes how to use the STDEV and CONFIDENCE functions to determine the standard deviation and confidence interval for a sample of data. The user selects the functions from the insert menu, inputs the sample data, alpha level, standard deviation, and sample size to calculate the confidence interval range.

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Guide For Determining The Confidence Interval Using Excel

This document provides instructions for calculating a confidence interval using Excel. It describes how to use the STDEV and CONFIDENCE functions to determine the standard deviation and confidence interval for a sample of data. The user selects the functions from the insert menu, inputs the sample data, alpha level, standard deviation, and sample size to calculate the confidence interval range.

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Tim Sandle
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Guide for Determining the Confidence Interval Using Excel

1. Click in an empty cell.


2. Go to the Inset menu and select Function

3. Scroll through the functions and select STDEV.


4. Highlight the cells containing the data to which the standard deviation is to apply
(normally duplicate or triplicate results).
5. Click OK.
6. Click in another empty cell.
7. Go to the Insert menu and select Function.

8. Scroll through the functions and select CONFIDENCE.


The following dialogue box will appear.

5. In the box labeled Alpha, insert the Alpha level you wish to use in your analysis
(Use: .05 for a 95% confidence interval).
6. Click in the box labelled Standard_dev and type in the value computed in the
STDEV function performed above.
7. In the box labelled Size, insert the number of data points in the sample (for a
triplicate test, enter 3).
8. Click OK, and the confidence interval will be computed.
9. Add and subtract the confidence interval value from the mean found above to find
the confidence interval range.

Tim Sandle
13th August 2008

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