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    Post How to prepare Bell Curve in Excel

    Hi

    I am new to this excel forum.

    I have given an new assignment to prepare a "Bell Curve on Performance Appraisal" for employees.

    I have a data of appraisal marks for each staff and ratings. How to prepare a bell curve in excel.

    Please guide me.

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    Re: How to prepare Bell Curve in Excel

    Not enough information to give a specific response.

    If you need to learn about bell curves and histograms and other statistical topics, I would suggest a statistical textbook or any of the suitable statistics tutorials on the internet (perhaps this one https://www.moresteam.com/toolbox/histogram.cfm or put something like "histograms and bell curves" into your favorite internet search engine).

    Once you understand how to apply the statistics to your task, then you can use the tools in Excel to present the data. One option would be to use the histogram tool (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...252.aspx?CTT=1) to create a histogram for the data. Or you could use the =AVERAGE() and =STDEV() functions to find an appropriate average and standard deviation of the data, then use the =NORMDIST() function to create the bell curve.
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    Re: How to prepare Bell Curve in Excel

    Thank you very. I will check both these links.
    If still i have problem will come back to you with sample data.

    Regina

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    Re: How to prepare Bell Curve in Excel

    Sir

    Hereby enclosed the sample data and need to prepare "Bell Curve" Please explain

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    Re: How to prepare Bell Curve in Excel

    I am not in a position to give a complete tutorial on bell curves, histograms, and how to use them. If you have a specific question, it will help us give specific answers.

    It looks from your picture like you have a "total performance" score for each employee. It would appear that you want to look at how this score is distributed across multiple employees.

    As I noted above, I would probably start this analysis using a histogram. For someone unfamiliar with how this is done, it is often easiest to use the built in histogram tool. It appears that your main difficulty is in defining the bins. Instead of giving each bin as a range, give only the upper limit for each bin. Instead of 0-39, simply enter 40. Instead of 80-100, enter 100. Once you have your column of bins entered, it should be as easy as calling up the histogram tool, tell it to use the "total" column as the data array, and the range containing the bins. Tell it where you want the output and whether you want it to include the column chart/histogram, then click ok and you should have something to start from.

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