PARAMETER AND

STATISTIC
PARAMETER
•  
• measure that describes a population
• Usually denoted by Greek Letters

MEAN
VARIANCE
STANDARD DEVIATION
STATISTICS
• a branch of mathematics dealing with the
collection, analysis, interpretation, and
presentation of masses of numerical data

STATISTIC
Is a measure that describes a sample
Usually denoted by Roman letters
Population Mean
•  

Where x=given data

N=population size
Example
• The number of workers in six outlets
of a fast food restaurant are 12, 10,
11, 15, 12 and 14. treating these data
as population, find the population
mean.
 OUTLETS x (NO. OF WORKERS)
1 12
2 10
3 11
4 15
5 12
6 14

 
∑ 𝑥 74
𝜇= = =12.33
𝑁 6
OUTLETS x (NO. OF OUTLETS x (NO. OF
WORKERS) WORKERS)
1 12 1 12
2 10 2 10
3 11 3 11
4 15 4 15
5 12 5 12
6 2 6 30
Population Variance and Standard
Deviation
••  

Where N=population Size

x=given data
Example
• The following are ages of the 16 math teachers at Ems
Secondary school

30 32 34 38 28 36 40 31
35 34 33 30 37 40 30 40

Compute for the population variance and population standard

deviation.
SAMPLE MEAN
•  
  x̄

Where x=sample data

n=sample size
• The following are ages of the 16 math teachers at Archimedes
Secondary school

30 32 34 38 28 36 40 31
35 34 33 30 37 40 30 40

Find the sample mean of the given.

Sample Variance and
Standard Deviation
•  
•

• Where  x̄= sample mean

n= sample size
• The following are ages of the 16 math teachers at Archimedes
Secondary school

30 32 34 38 28 36 40 31
35 34 33 30 37 40 30 40

Find the sample variance and standard deviation of the 12

randomly selected data.
ASSIGNMENT
• The following are the scores of 8 randomly selected students
in Grade 10
7 8 12 15
10 11 9 14

Compute for the following:

a. Sample mean
b. Sample variance
c. Sample standard deviation