Question

I am wondering if in Excel we have command like ones or range command.

I am using the following command in one of my experiment :

=TTEST(A1:A5, {1,1,1,1,1},2,1)

However, if the iterations of the experiment increase, you have a really big formula. So, Any idea if I can write the formula in a more elegant way so that I donot have to repeat 1 as the number of experiments.

Thanks

Answer 1

IT’s a little ugly, but you can use a little trick with the ROW function to generate a series of ones:

The ROW function, when used as an array function, will return a sequence of the row numbers in the reference. So to generate the array 1,2,3,4,5 you could use

ROW(1:5)

To generate a sequence of n ones just divide that array by itself:

ROW(1:n)/ROW(1:n)

To make n a variable, just use the INDIRECT function and a cell reference:

ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&C1))/ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&C1))

So your formula would be:

=TTEST(A1:A5, ROW(A1:A5)/ROW(A1:A5),2,1)

Or, more simply for your case, just divide the range by itself:

=TTEST(A1:A5, (A1:A5)/(A1:A5), 2, 1)