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Univariate statistics on TI-nspire

Univariate statistics means statistics with one variable. Your TI-nspire calculator can do the complete statistical analysis if you follow the simple steps:

1. Create a spreadsheet containing the data

You can start with creating a new document:

on
 ► New Document
   ► Add Lists & Spreadsheets
1-Var Stats

An empty spreadsheet will appear on the screen.

I recommend you to label the first two columns. The first column will contain data so label it data. The second column will contain frequencies so label it frq (it's shorter then frequencies). The names must be entered in the first row of each column.

Leave the second row empty (this row is reserved for special formulas).

Enter the data and frequencies in corresponding columns.

2. Use the OneVar function

In this spreadsheet put the cursor in an empty cell (e.g. column 3, second row) and use:

menu
 ► Statistics
   ► Stat Calculations
     ► One-Variable Statistics

A dialog box will open asking you about the number of lists: 1 is OK.

X1 List: data
Freq List: frq
...  
1st Res Col: c[ ]

              OK Cancel

Then a larger dialog box will appear.

Enter the name of your data (e.g., data) in box at "X1 List".

Enter name frq in "Freq List".

Specify in which column the results should be written in "1st Result Column". Normally column c[ ] or column d[ ] will be just fine.

After pressing OK button the calculator will display the results. Results include a lot of statistical parameters. The most important of them are:

x   = the mean or average
σx = the standard deviation

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