Gerlie B.

Placencia
MAED- EDUC 211

Measures of Variation

Measures of variation in statistics are ways to describe the distribution

or dispersion of data. It shows how far apart data points are from one another.
Measures of variation helps as in summarizing our data.

Example:

The weights, in pounds of dog in a group are: 25,83,15,30,17,72,40,32,19.

Find:

 Range
 IQR
 Variance
 Standard Deviation

Solutions

1. Arrange the data from smallest to largest. 15, 17, 19, 25, 30, 32, 40, 72,
83

 The range is the largest value minus the smallest value.

Range= 83- 15 = 68

 To find the IQR, first find the median.

Median- 30
Q1 is (17+19) /2 = 18
Q3 is (40+72)/2 = 56
IQR= Q3- Q1
IQR = 56-18= 38

 The mean is (15+17+19+ 25+ 30+ 32+ 40+ 72+ 83)/9 = 37

Find the difference between each weight and the mean and square the
results.
 Weight Weight- Mean (Weight- Mean) ^2

15 -22 484
17 -20 400
19 -18 324
25 -12 144
30 -7 49
32 -5 25
40 3 9
72 35 1225
83 46 2116

Add the results and divided by 9 to get the variance.

Variance = (484+400+324+144+49+25+9+1225+2116)/9= 530.67

Standard Deviation is the square root of the variance.

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 = √𝟓𝟑𝟎. 𝟔𝟕 ≈ 𝟐𝟑. 𝟎𝟒