Introduction to Statistics Week 7

Class: BS (Hons) Semester: 2nd

Standard deviation:
Standard deviation is most popularly used measure of dispersion as it is based on all observations
and is simple by definition. It gives idea about the variation present in the data. The Standard
deviation is denoted by the notation σ or σx and is defined as follows:

Where σx2 is called the variance of the variable X. The variance of the variable X can be treated
as the measure of variation; but it will have its unit in square, and therefore the standard deviation
is defined as the positive square root of the variance and it is treated as the measure of variation.
The variance is also called the mean squared deviation. It is also denoted by V(X) and is defined
as follows:

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Computation of the standard deviation by direct method:

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Practice Question:

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