A Manual for Undergraduate Research in Field Biology
Part III. Analyze— make sense of your data

A Manual for Undergraduate Research in Field Biology
Part III. Analyze— make sense of your data

Alphabetized List of Subtopics from Screencasts

Below is an alphabetized list with links to the most important subtopics included in the Screencast guides to using MS Excel to analyze data with graphs and statistics. Note: some subtopics are linked more than once under different terms below to help users quickly find a topic of interest. For a list of complete Screencasts from this series, go here.

As you may know, you can quickly search for a term or topic on this page (or on most webpages or within most documents) by typing ctrl F and then doing a search.

Adjusting scale of axes on graphs

Analysis ToolPak: Installing

ANOVA: doing the test

ANOVA: formatting table of output

ANOVA: interpreting output

ANOVA: scatterplot with three (or more) groups

Date codes in Excel: avoiding formatting problems

Dummy variables

Error bars

Excel Basics: cell format

Excel Basics: formulas

Excel Basics: functions

Excel Basics: paste as values

Excel Basics: spreadsheet format

Formulas: basics

Formulas: calculating averages

Formulas: paste as values

Formulas: using the dollar sign

Formulas: view all in a spreadsheet

Frequency distribution (= histogram)

Functions: "static" vs. "dynamic"

Functions: basics

Hidden Data on Scatterplots: how to display with jitter

Hidden Data on Scatterplots: how to display with text boxes

Hidden Data on Scatterplots: how to find

Histograms (= graphs of frequency distributions)

Install Analysis ToolPak

Paste as values

Paste Transpose

p-value: cutoff for statistical significance

p-value: p is the probability…

p-values: one-tailed vs. two-tailed (for t-Test)

Reducing number of digits

Regression Analysis: doing the test

Regression Analysis: formatting the output

Regression Analysis: interpreting output

Regression Analysis: r-squared

Regression Analysis: scatterplot

Reporting digits

Scatterplot: adding a text box for x-axis categories

Scatterplot: adding a trendline

Scatterplot: adding error bars

Scatterplot: adding legend

Scatterplot: adding mean values

Scatterplot: comparing three groups

Scatterplot: comparing two groups

Scatterplot: continuous independent variable (for regression analysis)

Scatterplots: adjusting axis scale

Scatterplots: formatting

Scatterplots: using dummy variables for categories on x-axis

Scientific notation (Excel version)

Significant digits

t-Test: doing the test—getting started

t-Test: doing the test—completing the test

t-Test: equal vs. unequal variances

t-Test: formatting table of output

t-Test: interpreting output 1

t-Test: interpreting output 2

t-Test: one-tailed vs. two-tailed p-values

t-Test: scatterplot with two groups





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