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Mean deviation is not used for higher statistical work. The useful measures of
dispersion are variance and standard deviation.
Population variance and Standard deviation of ungrouped data
Variance determines how the values fluctuate around the mean. The population
variance is the mean value of the square of the deviation from the mean as is
denoted by the symbol sigma square. The formula is shown below.
2=
1
X 22
= 2=
1
X 2 2
Example
Find the variance and standard deviation of the following data.
X
1
3
4
6
10
Frequency,
f
2
8
10
8
6
Solution
s= s2
Example
Find the variance and standard deviation of the following sample data: 1, 7, 2
and 5.
Solution
x=1+7+ 2+ 5=15
x2
= 12 +72 +22 + 52 = 79