One widely available program for calculating descriptive statistics is Microsoft Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet program that can be used by researchers to manage and analyze data sets.

The following exercise is designed to introduce you to some of the basic descriptive statistical resources within Excel that may be useful in your course.

Use the data listed below and Excel to compute the means and standard deviations for each condition. A B Control Treatment 1 45 64 2 65 76 3 75 83 4 56 69 5 46 66