College

 of  Veterinary/  Kirkuk  University                                                                                                          Lecture  Four-­‐  Practical    

Assistant  lecture:  Ahmed  S.  Shaker  
Measure  of  dispersion  or  variation  
March  16,  2016  
 
Exercise: Given below are the numbers of eggs produced by local chicken in a
henhouse.

Egg per year 64 63 62 61 60 59

Number of hens 8 18 12 9 7 6

Find:

1. Mean
2. Median
3. Mode
4. Range
5. Standard deviation (S.D)
6. Coefficient of Variation (C.V)
7. Draw the histogram

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College  of  Veterinary/  Kirkuk  University                                                                                                          Lecture  Four-­‐  Practical    
Assistant  lecture:  Ahmed  S.  Shaker  
Measure  of  dispersion  or  variation  
March  16,  2016  
 

1. Mean:

𝑓𝑥 x f fx
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 = 64 8 512
𝑁
3713 63 18 1134
𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛 = = 61.8 62 12 744
60
61 9 549
60 7 420
59 6 354
𝑓𝑥 3713
2. Median:

!!
𝑁+1 x f cf
𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 = 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚 64 8 8
2
63 18 26
60 + 1 !! 62 12 38
𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 = 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚 61 9 47
2
60 7 54
61 !! 59 6 60
𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 = 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚
2
𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑛 = 30.5!! = 62

3. Mode:

𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒 = 63

4. Range:

𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 = 𝑀𝑖𝑥. −𝑀𝑖𝑛.

𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 = 64 − 59
𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 = 5

5. Standard Deviation (S.D):

x f d= X-A d2 fd fd2
! 64 8 2 4 16 32
𝑓𝑑 ! 𝑓𝑑
𝜎= − 63 18 1 1 18 18
𝑓 𝑓
62 12 0 0 0 0
141 −7 ! 61 9 -1 1 -9 9
𝜎= − 60 7 -2 4 -14 28
60 60
59 6 -3 9 -18 54
𝜎 = 2.35 − 0.01
60 -7 141

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College  of  Veterinary/  Kirkuk  University                                                                                                          Lecture  Four-­‐  Practical    
Assistant  lecture:  Ahmed  S.  Shaker  
Measure  of  dispersion  or  variation  
March  16,  2016  
 
𝜎 = 2.34
𝜎 = 2.08
6. Coefficient of Variation

𝜎
𝑐. 𝑣 = ×100
𝑥

4.43
𝑐. 𝑣 = ×100
61.8

𝑐. 𝑣 = 7.16  %

7. Draw the histogram

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