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Using Excel for statistics: Short videos on random sampling

These short videos demonstrate useful techniques for using Excel for statistics in GCSE and A level Mathematics, including the large data sets. Most are less than 5 minutes in length.

These videos use the Car fuel and emissions data set.

The data set used in the videos is not related to any exam specification; it has been chosen to illustrate the techniques.

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    Random sampling in Excel using randombetween

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    Random sampling in Excel using vlookup

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    Random sampling in Excel using rand()

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