Measures of Dispersion
Measures of Dispersion
Measures of Dispersion
DISPERSION
Celien L. Galvan
Measures of Dispersion
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Variance is a measurement value used to find how the data is
spread concerning the mean or the average value of the data
set. It is used to find the distribution of data in the dataset and
define how much the values differ from the mean. The symbol
used to define the variance is σ2. It is the square of the
Standard Deviation.
The are two types of variance used in statistics,
The population variance is used to determine how each
data point in a particular population fluctuates or is
spread out,
The sample variance is used to find the average of the
squared deviations from the mean.
Variance Formula for Grouped and Ungrouped
Data
• The variance for a data set is denoted by the
symbol σ2. The formula for calculating variance
differs slightly for grouped and ungrouped data.
• For ungrouped data, variance is calculated by
finding the average of the squared differences
between each data point and the mean.
• For grouped data, the variance takes into
account the frequency of each data point or
group.
Formula for Calculating
Variance
X x̄ (X-x̄)
64 82.4 - 339.6
3 18.4 6 FIND
3 1.VARIANCE
77 82.4 -5.43 29.48 2.STANDARD
3 DEVIATION
78 82.4 -4.43 19.62
3
82 82.4 -0.43 0.18
3
Standard Deviation in Statistics
• Standard Deviation is defined as the degree of
dispersion of the data point from the mean value of
the data point. It tells us how the value of the data
points varies from the mean value of the data point
and it tells us about the variation of the data point in
the sample of the data.
• Standard Deviation of a given sample of data set is
also defined as the square root of the variance of the
data set. Mean Deviation of the n values (say x1, x2, x3,
…, xn) is calculated by taking the sum of the squares
of the difference of each value from the mean, i.e.
Formula for Calculating Standard Deviation
Class F x fx x̄ (X-x̄) f
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• FIND the ff. of Sample Grouped
Data
1. Range
2. Variance
3. Standard Deviation