Statistics Calculator Widget

Add a descriptive statistics calculator to your course or research page. Visitors paste a list of numbers and get the mean, median, mode, spread, sample and population standard deviation, and quartiles with the method named.

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How it works

The list may be separated by spaces, commas, semicolons, tabs or new lines, so a column pasted from a spreadsheet works directly. Sums use compensated (Neumaier) addition and the variance is computed in two passes around the mean, which keeps precision for long lists or large values. Quartiles differ between textbooks and software, so the widget offers three published methods and names the one used in the result.

Calculation method

  • Mean = sum / n; median = middle value (average of the two middle values when n is even)
  • Population variance = sum((x - mean)^2) / n; sample variance = sum((x - mean)^2) / (n - 1)
  • Standard deviation = square root of the variance
  • Quartiles - halves: median of lower and upper halves, median excluded for odd n (TI-83/84)
  • Quartiles - inclusive: interpolate at (n - 1)p (Excel QUARTILE.INC); exclusive: at (n + 1)p (Excel QUARTILE.EXC)

Worked examples

Microsoft's QUARTILE.INC example

Inputs: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12; inclusive quartiles

Result: Mean 6.625, median 7.5, Q1 3.5, Q3 9.25, IQR 5.75; sample SD 3.925648, population SD 3.672108

Q1 sits at position (8 - 1) x 0.25 = 1.75, between 2 and 4: 2 + 0.75 x 2 = 3.5, matching Excel.

Limitations

  • Numbers only - no frequency tables, grouped data, weights or categories.
  • No inferential statistics: confidence intervals, t-tests and regression are out of scope.
  • Commas always separate values, so thousands separators and decimal commas must be removed first.
  • Displayed to 6 decimal places; the full-precision values are used internally.

Where publishers use it

  • Statistics and data-literacy course pages
  • Teachers summarising test scores for a class
  • Research and survey write-ups where readers can re-check the numbers
  • Quality-control or lab pages that summarise a batch of measurements

Questions

Should I use the sample or population standard deviation?

Use the population figure when your list is the whole group you care about (every student in the class). Use the sample figure when the list is a sample drawn from a larger group, which is the usual case in research.

Why do my quartiles differ from Excel or my calculator?

There are several accepted quartile methods. Pick the matching one: TI-84 calculators and many textbooks use the median of halves; Excel's QUARTILE.INC is the inclusive method and QUARTILE.EXC the exclusive one.

Can I paste numbers with thousands separators?

No - a comma always separates two numbers, so 1,000 would be read as 1 and 0. Remove the separators first; use a point for decimals.

How many numbers can it handle?

Up to 10,000 values at a time.

Sources

  1. Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages (The American Statistician 50(4), 1996) - Rob J. Hyndman and Yanan Fan . The nine standard quantile definitions; inclusive = type 7, exclusive = type 6
  2. QUARTILE.INC function - Microsoft Support . Excel's inclusive quartile; its worked example (1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 -> Q1 = 3.5) is one of our tests

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