DLP - WK33 - SD
DLP - WK33 - SD
DLP - WK33 - SD
ASSESSMENT PLAN
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
The learner should be able to:
1. Identify the if the data will or can spread.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 2. Measures the spread of the data.
3. Calculate the Standard Deviation.
PREPARATION
PRIMING ACTIVITY
Suppose that AFA1 and AFA2 both plant seeds at the school garden. AFA1 plants
the seeds for seven minutes and AFA2 plants for one minute. At the school
garden, the mean planting time is five minutes and the standard deviation is two
minutes. The standard deviation can be used to determine whether a data value
is close to or far from the mean. AFA1 plants for seven minutes: • Seven is two
minutes longer than the average of five; two minutes is equal to one standard
deviation. • AFA1's planting time of seven minutes is two minutes longer than
the average of five minutes. • AFA1's planting time of seven minutes is one
standard deviation above the average of five minutes. AFA2 plants for one
minute. • One is four minutes less than the average of five; four minutes is equal
to two standard deviations. • AFA2's planting time of one minute is four minutes
less than the average of five minutes. • AFA2's planting time of one minute is
ABSTRACTION
two standard deviations below the average of five minutes. • A data value that
is two standard deviations from the average is just on the borderline for what
many statisticians would consider to be far from the average. Considering data
to be far from the mean if it is more than two standard deviations away is more
of an approximate "rule of thumb" than a rigid rule. In general, the shape of the
distribution of the data affects how much of the data is further away than two
standard deviations. (You will learn more about this in later chapters.) The
number line may help you understand standard deviation. If we were to put five
and seven on a number line, seven is to the right of five. We say, then, that seven
is one standard deviation to the right of five because 5 + (1)(2) = 7. If one were
also part of the data set, then one is two standard deviations to the left of five
because 5 + (–2)(2) = 1.
Calculating the Standard Deviation
If x is a number, then the difference "x – mean" is called its deviation. In a data
set, there are as many deviations as there are items in the data set. The
deviations are used to calculate the standard deviation. If the numbers belong
to a population, in symbols a deviation is x–μ. For sample data, in symbols a
deviation is x– x ¯ . The procedure to calculate the standard deviation depends
on whether the numbers are the entire population or are data from a sample.
The calculations are similar, but not identical. Therefore the symbol used to
represent the standard deviation depends on whether it is calculated from a
population or a sample. The lower case letter s represents the sample
standard deviation and the Greek letter σ(sigma, lowercase) represents the
population standard deviation. If the sample has the same characteristics as
the population, then s should be a good estimate of σ. To calculate the
standard deviation, we need to calculate the variance first. The variance is the
average of the squares of the deviations (the x– x ¯ values for a sample, or the
APPLICATION x–μ values for a population). The symbol σ2 represents the population
variance; the population standard deviation σ is the square root of the
population variance. The symbol s2 represents the sample variance; the
sample standard deviation s is the square root of the sample variance. You can
think of the standard deviation as a special average of the deviations. If the
numbers come from a census of the entire population and not a sample, when
we calculate the average of the squared deviations to find the variance, we
divide by N, the number of items in the population. If the data are from a
sample rather than a population, when we calculate the average of the
squared deviations, we divide by n–1, one less than the number of items in the
sample. Formulas for the Sample Standard Deviation • s= Σ(x− x ¯)2 n−1 or s=
Σf(x− x ¯)2 n−1 • For the sample standard deviation, the denominator is n- 1,
that is the sample size MINUS 1. Formulas for the Population Standard
Deviation • σ = Σ(x−µ)2 N or σ = Σf(x – µ)2 N • For the population standard
deviation, the denominator is N, the number of items in the population. In
these formulas, f represents the frequency with which a value appears. For
example, if a value appears once, f is one. If a value appears three times in the
data set or population, f is three.
ASSESSMENT
ASSIGNMENT
Prepared by:
Mr. Melvin Jan A. Guarin
Checked by: