1.What is Dispersion? 2.OBJECTIVES OF 3.PROPERTIES OF A GOOD 4.MEASURES OF DISPERSION?

MEASURING MEASURE OF
Dispersion refers to DISPERSION? DISPERSION? a. Absolute measure of
the variations of the dispersion
items among To determine the Easy to understand
themselves / around reliability of an _Expressed in the same units
an average. average Simple to calculate which data is expressed.
_Ex: Rupees, Kgs,
Greater the variation To compare the Uniquely defined Ltr, Km etc.
amongst different variability of two or
items of a series, the more series Based on all observations b. Relative measure of
more will be the dispersion
dispersion. For facilitating the use Not affected by extreme _In the form of ratio or
of other statistical observations percentage, so is independent
As per Bowley, measures of units.
“Dispersion is a Capable of further algebraic _It is also called Coefficient of
measure of the Basis of Statistical treatment Dispersion.
variation of the Quality Control
items”.

5.METHODS OF 6. What is Range(R)? 7. Range 8. INTERQUARTILE RANGE &

MEASURING a. Merits: QUARTILE DEVIATION?
DISPERSION? a. It is the simplest 1.Simple to understand 1.Interquartile Range is the
measures of 2.Easy to calculate difference between the
a. Range dispersion 3.Widely used in statistical quality upper quartile (Q3) and the
b. In quartile range b. It is defined as the control lower quartile (Q1).
and quartile deviation difference between b. Demerits: 2.It covers dispersion of midd
c. Mean Deviation the largest and 1. Can’t be calculated in open 50% of the items of the series
d. Standard Deviation smallest values in the ended distributions Symbolically, Interquartile
e. Coefficient of series 2.Not based on all the Range = Q3 – Q1
Variants c. R = L – S observations 3.Quartile Deviation is half of
f. Lorenz Curve R = Range, L = Largest 3.Affected by sampling the interquartile range. It is
Value, S = Smallest fluctuations also called Semi Interquartile
Value 4.Affected by extreme values Range
Coefficient of Range = 4. Symbolically, Quartile
L-S/L+S Deviation = 𝑄3 −𝑄1 /2

8. INTERQUARTILE 9. MEAN DEVIATION 10. MEAN DEVIATION – SHOR

RANGE & QUARTILE (M.D.)? CUT METHOD?
DEVIATION? a. It is also called a. If value of the average
5. Coefficient of Average Deviation comes out to be in fractions,
Quartile Deviation: It b. It is defined as the the calculation of M.D. by
Σ |𝑋 −𝑋|/N
is the relative arithmetic average of would become quite
measure of quartile the deviation of the tedious. In such cases, the
deviation. various items of a following formula is used:
series computed from
6. Coefficient of Q.D. measures of central b. M.D. =Σ𝑓𝑋 𝐴 − Σ𝑓𝑋 𝐵 − Σ𝑓 𝐴 –
=𝑄3 −𝑄1 /𝑄3+𝑄1 tendency like mean or Σ𝑓(𝑋 𝑜𝑟 𝑀)/N
median.