Creating An Xy Scattergraph In Microsoft Excel - COM-FSM

Creating XY Scattergraphs with Spreadsheets

Creating an xy scattergraph in Microsoft Excel Creating an xy scattergraph in OpenOffice.org Calc 2.0

Creating an xy scattergraph in Microsoft Excel

1. Select the data and click on the chart wizard button:
2. Choose an x-y scatter graph:
3. Choose finish:
4. Click on a point on the chart to highlight the data points:
5. Choose Chart: Add Trendline
6. Choose a linear regression and then click on the Options tab
7. Select both Display equation on chart and Display R-Squared value on chart (the image shows only the first item being selected.
8. The result:

To obtain the slope and intercept in Excel for the above data, use the following functions: =slope(c2:c8,b2:b8) =intercept(c2:c8,b2:b8) Note the use of the semi-colon. Excel uses a comma by default, OpenOffice 2.0 a semi-colon. OpenOffice.org 3.0 and 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 respectively use a comma. Distribution of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and 3.1 on Windows continue to use a semi-colon.

Excel 2007 uses different screens to obtain a linear regression.

Creating an xy scattergraph in OpenOffice.org Calc 2.0

The following directions apply to OpenOffice.org Calc versions 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2. In version 2.3 the chart wizard was altered. Starting with version 2.3, the chart wizard does not wait for the user to use the mouse to drag the chart location. For directions on using version 2.3, refer to the notes on version 2.4.

1. Select the data and click on the chart wizard
2. Drag to indicate where the graph should be located and how big the graph should be
3. Click on next
4. Choose an xy chart
5. The first variant works best in this course
6. Choose create (the various titles can be filled in as appropriate)
7. Choose insert statistics
8. Choose the linear regression, click on OK
9. The graph will display the best fit line, but not the function.

To display the slope and intercept in OpenOffice for the above data, use the following functions: =slope(c2:c8;b2:b8) =intercept(c2:c8;b2:b8) Note the use of the semi-colon. Excel uses a comma by default, OpenOffice a semi-colon.