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Data Analysis Data Analysis Basics Getting to Know Your Data Summarizing Data: Mean, Median, Mode

Josie Nagy
Josie Nagy
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Summarizing Data - How do I calculate the Range value?

When calculating the Average value, at 1:56, it simply says:

" ... Type in the function, paste in the range, and hit Enter."

And I see him pasting some value, without selecting anything. But where did that value come from?

After I type "=average(" and then click on the range value "18:11:23" I get as a result the same thing: 'Average - 18:11:23'

Some snapshots: https://snag.gy/65wxUu.jpg https://snag.gy/mAuz2Y.jpg

Can anyone help? Where can I get that value(the range) from?

2 Answers

Hi Josie,

Your question has me a little confused on what you are asking... the range is the difference between the MIN and the MAX value in a collection of data, you are also showing that you are trying to Average the result of a division with 3 different values ("18:11:23"). If you are trying to find the Average between those 3 numbers then you have to separate them with "," not ":" so it would look like this "=AVERAGE(18,11,23)".

He means that Paste the '2017'!V2:V26411 that we've copied before (maybe in the previous video)