92020 ea - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Colurnn Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Column Chart and S Curves in Excel Asked 1 year, 6 months ago Active 1 month ago Viewed 2k times Most of us may be aware of normal distribution curves however those who are new to front- loaded and back-loaded normal distribution, | would like to provide the background and then 42 would proceed on stating my problem °Y Front-Loaded Distribution: As demonstrated below, it have a rapid start. For eg. ina project fi] when more resources assumed to be consumed early in the project, cost/hours is distributed 4 aggressively at the start of project. a * a a 2% 2% ™ 2% 1% ™ om Back-Loaded Distribution: Contrary to Front-Loaded distribution, it start out with a lower slope and increasingly steep towards the end of the project. For e.g. when most resources assumed to be consumed late in the project. a a * * » 2% % % o% By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service. x hitpsstackovortow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-cuvesin nesr9n020 ‘oa Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distrbuton Colin Chart and $ Curves in Exeel- Stack Overflow resources (Cost/Hours) in that period For reference, | am providing the Bell Curve / standard normal distribution (when Mean=Median) chart (below) and the associated formula to begin with. % an * ” » m% » * om Problem Statement: | was able to generate the normal distribution curve (See below with formulae) however | am unable to find a solution for Front loaded or Back Loaded curves. How to bring the skewness to the right (front-loaded / positively skewed distribution which means mean is greater than median) and left skewed (back-loaded / negatively skewed distribution which means mean is less than median) in a normal distribution? By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and x our Terms of Service. hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476irontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin ana511972020, va - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Column Chart and $ Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow : 0 1 : a : : ; Bee o| 1 a [eas 63235 248s m2 a = ae a) = ee = a ea cok ae me 13, 5 0 226358 157735 120985 ae a) ae as a ne es is iH Cell B8 denotes arbitrarily chosen standard deviation. It affects the kurtosis of normal distribution In the above screenshot, | am choosing the range of the normal distribution to be from -3SD to 38D. 2 " al han ns. - Formula Explaned: Cell B9 to B18 denotes the even distribution of Z-Score using the formula: B8-((2"$8$8)/Period) Cell C9 to C18 denotes the normal distribution on the basis of Z Score and the Amount using the formula: =(NORMSDIST (B9) -NORMSDIST(BB)) *Anount /(1-2*NORMSDIST ($888) ) Update: Following one of the link in comment, I closest got to the below situation. The issue is highlighted in Yellow pattern as due to the usage of volatile Rand() function the charts are not smooth as they should be. As my given formula above do not create ZigZag pattern, | am sure we x hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin ana511972020, va - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Colurnn Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow can have skewed normal distribution and smooth too ! svn] saa =10 | stoout| sis072206 | stow |__| ZZ : oo (etece | seect 100 = ins 20 | "mS" o.sszi0so303e0q Back Loaded ES | lh. 2 oteaaeams cranes baum] come of ima (alli... Note: 1. | am using Excel 2016, so | welcome if any newly introduced formula can solve my problem. Also, | am not hesitant to use UDFs. 2. The numbers of front-load and back-load distribution are notional. They could vary. | am only interested in shape of resulting chart. Kindly help ! ‘excel vba exeelformulanormal-dstribution edited Apr 9 at 725 asked Oct 31 18 at 0:50 omar jainashish W3k 9 27 58 1705 3 27 34 1. you might want to chock JackBeean's response on mrexcel,com/forum/excel-questions!... «it doesn't quite match your desired shapes but you can easily get a front loaded and back loaded distribution by editing the STDIN, AVGIN, START and END fields (in your example you'd want 10 bins) — Jon Oct 31 "18 at 6:17 4 Really good presentation of your question!!! :) - Wizhi Oct 31'18 at 16:43 ” 1 @Jon - The difference between Jackbean's response and desired solution is that there are numerous ways to generate random numbers but those random numbers sums to desired value is what | am after. So Input should be 3 variables: (Bins, Total Cost, Front/Back) and Total Cost needs to be distributed in Bins in Front ‘or Back manner. Jackbean's response has no control over the Total Sum, ~ jainashish Oct 3118 at 21:52 4 @jainashish You enter the total count in cell B3 ({he "Select" variable). Then the count column will give you ‘a distribution totalling that value. I's perhaps not very clear that this is what will happen though as the x hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin ana511972020, 5 Answers ea - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Colurnn Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow ‘culprit is usage of RAND() in Column F. Any workaround for it? — jainashish Nov 1'18 at 5:16 Active Oldest | Votes You can generate the curve using below methods and can use the numbers generated by them for your requirement. curve _|Cumulative| leverage 5.83 0.09] 0.00] |standardbevistion| 3.20] 2.45; 2.45| [bins 20.00] 473 7.18| [multiplier 10.09] 6.70 13.88] 8.24] 2.1] 9.30] 31.49| 9.87 41.20] 9:35] 51.29] 972] 61.01] 9.15| 70.16 8.36 78.59] 7.43 $5.55 ead 92.35] 548 97.81 4a3|__102.24| 347 105.71| 255] 108.26| 1.68| 109.94] 0.83] 110.77 ‘o.00[ 130.77 [aera awa uc Eran bematon 64°56 + SINIB3/2, fs IANS) SSeS NBA inutipier ho The curve hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin en2511972020, vea- Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Colurnn Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow 3200 32000 1090 300.00 800 8000 600 400 2000 si | Wo” 000 Ii 2.00 1294 5 6 7 8 9 191122 1928 15 16 17 18 19 20 Notes: 1. If you want to change the bins you have to drag the cells down or up in order to complete the series 2. If you want to change the total cost, you can change the multiplier 3. If you want to change the tilting of the curve you can change the divider in column C which is currently set to 2, if is -2 the tilt will change direction, you can experiment with different numbers, the direction depends upon either itis less than zero or greater than zero For copy past -a20180/ (3683-1) DTANS (82) =$654"SIN(B2 + SIN(2)/2) answered Nov 2"18 at 11:47 i vsmanhag 12281 3 9 | used the actual mathematical formulas to arrive at the result. It looks like to me what you wanted to achieve, The orange cells in 'Skewed' section are the ones which can be changed to vary the 2. degree and direction of skew. 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Changing the mean moves the peak to the left or right. Changing the standard deviation makes the quantities more uniform or more variable. I've used 0-1000 as my default range in the example below, but it should be easy to modify the formula to bring any value you want. NOTE in order to fulfill your requirement that all bins must be non-zero, you need to manually adjust the By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and x hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476irontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin ana511972020, va - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Column Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow Yellow cells are for data entry, green cells are a count (so if you add bins, they would need to be numbered according to the sequence) 1 T 6 2 0080 9| 30096785728 101399 0 nf} 5 0.ssazi72 162821 0000 : jae Sy | hh Be inna s = God = aaa a 4 = 2 ‘ aes oem ae 31 6 oxeoisr72 160368 noe | qf sseeeel a | oe 4 tase ee] Formula in cell B7 (copied down to cell B16): =Noxmorst(sa7*1000/Hax( $AS6: $4817), $853, $884, TRUE)- NORMDIST($A6*1000/MAX(SA$6:$A$17),$8$3,$8$4, TRUE) Formula in cell C7 (copied down to cell C16): 'SUM(C$6:C6) , ROUND (87/SUM($B$7:$8817)*$CS5,0)) TF (AT=MAX ($A$6:$4817) ,$C$5- ‘Adding new bins is simple enough and is still based on a 0-100 range, so you don't need to change any numbers other than adding rows and copying down the formulae: /e read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and By using our site, you acknow xdge that you our Terms o htpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-cuvesin ona511972020, ea - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Colurnn Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow we ° c ae i 2 Stewed 20ins Sinem skewed, 20ins 2 stander devon a cout : ; _ a) 2 comms isn > a ee ° 4 oonssests ist i S omsmesi2 yaw som = @ Coneaescee ane 5 7 oosi01s7 168 1 # ooisssssra 73962 alll Ei 3 oncssres set Sask 2 ih 1? wim Bi eorag aon = 42 cosszoss 8 2 1 cosasras 79 2 HA consi 307 = te comzsyan 00853 5 17 conscsm8 oes » 1 tomens sons = 3 coms as07 2 wseewonsitoveate 2 The above example is also showing how a narrow standard deviation and a high mean combine to make the starting bins have very little quantity. But there is still a value (as long as count is big enough). You may want to pre-define the different skewness selections if this is going to be used by other people (make column 8 dependent on a lookup, for example) but hopefully this is extensil enough for your needs. answered Nov 4"18 at 23:32 Jon 2a 2 11 Ifyou are open to a Python answer the I can give you the code to get Python Pandas libary to generate the random observations from a skewed Normal and then bin (bucket) them for you The following in a Python script which captures the use case but also can be created using COM and so creatable from VBA. Amport numpy as np import pandas as pd from scipy-stats import skewnorm class PythonSkewecNormal (object): “Peg clsid_ = "{1583261D-27EA-aR01-ACFB-4905810F6898)" htpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin sone511972020, ea - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Column Chart and $ Curves in 4 https: //docs. scipy-org/doc/numpy- 41.15. 41/reFerence/generated/numpy.random. seed. tal. np-random. seed(18); shttps://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy- 0.19.1/reference/generated/scipy.stats. skewnorn.html return skewnorn.rvs(a, sizessz).tolist(); def BinnedskewedNormal(self,a, sz, bins) 4 https: //docs..scipy.org/doc/numpy- 1.15.1/reference/generated/numpy.randon. seed. html np-random. seed(18); sthttps://docs..scipy.org/éoc/scipy- 0.19.1/reference/generated/scipy. stats. skewnorn.html Pop = skennorm.rvs(a, size-sz); #.tolist(); bins2 = np.array(bins) bins3 = pd. cut(pop, bins2) table = pd.value_counts(bins3, sort-False) table. index table. index.astype(str) return table.reset_index().values.tolist(); if _nane_=='_main_': print ("Registering COM server...) import win32con. server register win32con. server register UseConmandLine(PythonSkewedNormal ) And the VBA client code option Explicit Sub TestPythonSkewedNormal () Dim skewedNormal As object Set skewedNormal « Createdoject("SciPyInVBA.PythonSkewecNormal”") Din Isize As Long Asize = 190 Dim shtoata As Excel.Worksheet Set shtOata = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets..Tten("Sheet3") circumstances shtbata.Cells.Clear change sheet to your Dim veins vBins = Array(-5, -4, ~3, -2, -1, ® 2, 2, 3, 4 5) ‘stop Din vainneddata vAinneddata = skewedNormal.BinnedSkewedNormal(-5, 1Size, vBins) Dim rngbata As Excel.Range Set rngbata = shtOata.Cells(2, 1).Resize(UBound(vBins) - LBound(vBins), 2) rngbata.Value2 = vBinnedbata ‘stop End Sub hitpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476irontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-curvesin se511972020, va - Front Loaded and Back Loaded | Normal Distribution Column Chart and § Curves in Excel - Stack Overiow (3, -4] (4, -3] C3, -2] (2, -1] 3 (a, @} 5: @ 4) (2) 3) G, 4) @ 5] Original code deposited on my blog edited Nov 318 at 23:48 answered Nov 3'18 at 23:17 S$ Meaden 698 3 21 50 Based on @usmanhaq's ans, vba macro made for distribution curve simulation. Corrected for 100% scaling of front & backloading curve. click here to go Github Lib = alles |= = === = answered Dec 13°19 at 11:01 Amit Panasara 360 4 11 By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service. htpsstackovorow.com/questions/5307476rontJoaded-ané-back-loaded-normal-distibullon-column-chart-and-s-cuvesin vane