apologise if this is a more stats question but just learning about normal distributions in Excel and I have simple question ...
when you have a set of data do you first the average and std deviation of that data and then try and approximate it with a probability distribution?
are there different types of distribution and if so how do you know which one is best to use?
It probably is more of a statistics than an Excel question. I'm not sure I'm enough of a statistician to explain the different distributions, but I'm sure there are several textbooks and websites that explain the basics of statistical distributions.
This one -- because he focuses on using Excel to perform the calculations -- might be particularly interesting for you: http://www.real-statistics.com/distributions/
Originally Posted by shg
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