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you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click
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= How do I generate a random sample in EXCEL? = Let us suppose we wish to randomly sample n cases of data comprising N people. 1. Put =RAND()*N in row 1 of the column adjacent to the right most data column in the spreadsheet 2. Copy and paste into remaining N-1 rows 3. Go to Data>sort on the EXCEL menu and make sure you sort in ascending order by the column you have just created. Click OK. 4. Delete rows n+1 to N. We have randomly permuted the data rows so that the first, or any adjacent, n rows represent a random sample of size n. For those who are interested more information is available on [http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande121/Materials/ExcelTut.pdf the rand() function]. There is also easy to use syntax to perform this in SPSS. |
you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click Ok and you are done. Was this answer helpful? ---- CategoryHomepage |
you have Open Office so you have Calc not Excel.basically you just need to Sort- select all your data in all your clomuns (except the 1st row)- click data- click sort- sort by box gets column G- click Ok and you are done. Was this answer helpful?