Random Number Generator

Thomas J. Quirk (), Meghan Quirk () and Howard Horton ()
Additional contact information
Thomas J. Quirk: Webster University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Excel 2007 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics, 2013, pp 19-32 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explains how to use Excel to take a random sample of people (or objects, plants, or animals) from a sampling frame that contains the list of people (objects, plants, or animals) from which you want to take a random sample. You will learn how to use Excel to create frame numbers for generating random numbers, why a set of duplicate frame numbers is important, and the Excel commands needed to sort the frame numbers into a random sequence. In addition, you will learn how to print out your result so that all of the information fits entirely onto a single page of paper. Three practice problems are given at the end of the chapter to test your Excel skills, and the answers to these problems appear in Appendix A of this book. An additional practice problem is presented in the Practice Test given in Appendix B along with its answer in Appendix C of this book.

Keywords: Duplicate Frame Numbers; Excellent Command; Excel Skills; Practice Problems; Random Sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-6003-9_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781461460039

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6003-9_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().