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Understanding Variability in Statistics

This document discusses common measures of variability in data including the range, variance, and standard deviation. The range is defined as the difference between the highest and lowest values. Variance and standard deviation formulas are provided for both ungrouped and grouped data, with examples calculating these measures from data sets.

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Understanding Variability in Statistics

This document discusses common measures of variability in data including the range, variance, and standard deviation. The range is defined as the difference between the highest and lowest values. Variance and standard deviation formulas are provided for both ungrouped and grouped data, with examples calculating these measures from data sets.

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Measure of

Variability
“ A measure of Variability represents
the amount of dispersion in a data
set.

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Common measures
● The Range

● The Variance

● The Standard Deviation

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Common measures
● The Range

is the difference between the highest and the lowest


value in a data set.

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Example

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Common measures
● The Variance and Standard Deviation

The variance and standard deviation of Ungrouped Data is given by


the formula

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Example
Consider the data sets and find its variance and standard
deviation

and

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Solution:

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Another solution:
We can use the second version of formula for Variance and
Standard Deviation, that is

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Solution:

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Another solution:

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Common measures
● The Variance and Standard Deviation

The variance and standard deviation of Grouped Data is given by the


formula

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Example
Compute the standard deviation of the following grade
distribution of 40 students based on their 25-point test.

Class Frequency
5-7 2
8-10 4
11-13 14
14-16 9
17-19 6
20-22 3
23-25 2

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Solution
5-7 2
8-10 4
11-13 14
14-16 9
17-19 6
20-22 3
23-25 2

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Solution

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Another Solution
We can use the other version of formula for Variance and
Standard Deviation, that is

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Solution
5-7 2

8-10 4

11-13 14

14-16 9

17-19 6

20-22 3

23-25 2

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Solution

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Another Solution
We can use the other version of formula for Variance and
Standard Deviation, that is

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Solution
5-7 2

8-10 4

11-13 14

14-16 9

17-19 6

20-22 3

23-25 2

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Solution

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Solution
5-7 2

8-10 4

11-13 14

14-16 9

17-19 6

20-22 3

23-25 2

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Solution

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