Our Big Story in blportfolio dated March 3, 2024, explained how statistical measures can be used to navigate the stock market and make informed investment decisions. Following up on that, of course, ...

A seasonal index is a way of measuring the seasonal variation -- that is, to measure the change that is due to seasonal changes in demand -- of a variable, typically sales. For example, a beachfront ...

As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

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A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

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Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...