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Bell Curve is a normal distribution curve and is very commonly used.
#CREATE BELL CURVE WITH MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATION EXCEL HOW TO#
This article is an excerpt from MrExcel 2020 - Seeing Excel Clearly. This video explains how to create a bell curve in Excel. Alternatively, choose Recommened Charts and the first option for a bell curve. On the Insert tab, open the XY-Scatter drop-down menu and choose the thumbnail with a smooth line. Type =NORM.DIST(B5,$B$1,$B$2,False) in C5 and copy down to row 65. (The S-Curve shows accumulated probability instead of point probability.) The last False says that you want a bell curve and not a S-curve. There are four required arguments: =NORM.DIST(This x point, Mean, Standard Deviation, False). For each point, you need to calculate the height of the curve along the y-axis. The numbers 100 to 200 go along the X-axis (the horizontal axis) of the chart. To continue the current example, you want a bell curve from 100 to 200. When statisticians talk about a bell curve, they are talking about a normal distribution. The magic function is called NORM.DIST which stands for Normal Distribution. Note that the notes in columns C:E of this figure do not get entered in your workbook - they are here to add meaning to the figure. Copy that formula from row 36 down to row 65. Type a formula there of =B1 to have the mean there.
Type headings of Point, X, Y in cells A4:C4.įill the numbers 1 to 61 in A5:A65.Since most of the results will fall within 3 standard deviations of the mean, you would use a standard deviation of 50/3 or 16.667. Say that you want to plot a bell curve that goes from 100 to 200 with the peak at 150.
99.73% will fall within three standard deviations of the mean. 95% falls within two standard deviations of the mean. In statistics, 68% of the population will fall within one standard deviation of the mean. I am not sure why people need to create bell curves, but here are the steps.Ī bell curve is defined by an average and a standard deviation. But for some reason, the Bell Curve video collected half a million views. I can never predict which ones will be popular.
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