 Statistics and Excel. Probability, distribution, models, and families. Got data? Let's get stuck into it with statistics and Excel. Introduction. In prior sections, we've been thinking about how we can describe different data sets using both mathematical calculations such as the mean or average, the median, the quartiles, and with pictorial representation like the box and whiskers and the histograms. The histogram being the pictorial representation most used when we're thinking about the spread of the data, how the data is dispersed. We can then use different kind of language to describe the histogram and what the histogram looks like, such as it's skewed to the left or it's skewed to the right. Now we want to spend more time using mathematical models to describe...