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Excel compatibility functions

Compatibility functions in Excel, explained with live examples.

40 compatibility functions in Excel2 documented in depth so far, the rest indexed below and landing every week.

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BETADIST
Returns the beta cumulative distribution function
BETAINV
Returns the inverse of the cumulative distribution function for a specified beta distribution
BINOMDIST
Returns the individual term binomial distribution probability
CEILING
Rounds a number to the nearest integer or to the nearest multiple of significance
CHIDIST
Returns the one-tailed probability of the chi-squared distribution
CHIINV
Returns the inverse of the one-tailed probability of the chi-squared distribution
CHITEST
Returns the test for independence
CONFIDENCE
Returns the confidence interval for a population mean
COVAR
Returns covariance, the average of the products of paired deviations
CRITBINOM
Returns the smallest value for which the cumulative binomial distribution is less than or equal to a criterion value
EXPONDIST
Returns the exponential distribution
FDIST
Returns the F probability distribution
FINV
Returns the inverse of the F probability distribution
FTEST
Returns the result of an F-test
GAMMADIST
Returns the gamma distribution
GAMMAINV
Returns the inverse of the gamma cumulative distribution
HYPGEOMDIST
Returns the hypergeometric distribution
LOGINV
Returns the inverse of the lognormal cumulative distribution
LOGNORMDIST
Returns the cumulative lognormal distribution
MODE
Returns the most common value in a data set
NEGBINOMDIST
Returns the negative binomial distribution
NORM.INV
Returns the inverse of the normal cumulative distribution
NORMDIST
Returns the normal cumulative distribution
NORMSDIST
Returns the standard normal cumulative distribution
NORMSINV
Returns the inverse of the standard normal cumulative distribution
PERCENTILE
Returns the k-th percentile of values in a range
PERCENTRANK
Returns the percentage rank of a value in a data set
POISSON
Returns the Poisson distribution
QUARTILE
Returns the quartile of a data set
STDEV
Estimates standard deviation based on a sample
STDEVP
Calculates standard deviation based on the entire population
TDIST
Returns the Student's t-distribution
TINV
Returns the inverse of the Student's t-distribution
TTEST
Returns the probability associated with a Student's t-test
VAR
Estimates variance based on a sample
VARP
Calculates variance based on the entire population
WEIBULL
Calculates variance based on the entire population, including numbers, text, and logical values
ZTEST
Returns the one-tailed probability-value of a z-test

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