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Measures of Variability

The document discusses different measures of variability used to analyze data sets, including range, mean deviation, variance, and standard deviation. It provides examples of calculating these measures for data sets of boys' and girls' math scores, finding the girls' data to be more homogeneous. The variance and standard deviation values also show the boys' scores to be more widely spread out than the girls'. Range is considered an unreliable measure on its own as it only uses the highest and lowest values rather than the full data set.

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Measures of Variability

The document discusses different measures of variability used to analyze data sets, including range, mean deviation, variance, and standard deviation. It provides examples of calculating these measures for data sets of boys' and girls' math scores, finding the girls' data to be more homogeneous. The variance and standard deviation values also show the boys' scores to be more widely spread out than the girls'. Range is considered an unreliable measure on its own as it only uses the highest and lowest values rather than the full data set.

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Measures of variability

1. OBJECTIVES: During the period, the students are expected to: 1. identify the different Measures of
Variability; 2. give the formula to compute each Measure of Variability; 3. solve problems involving
Measures of Variability ( ungrouped data ).

2. Boys Girls Frederick 70 Grace 82 Russel 95 Irish 80 Murphy 60 Abigail 83 Jerome 80 Sherry 81 Tom
100 Kristine 79 Mean: 81 Mean: 81 Scores of 5 Boys and 5 Girls in Mathematics

3. Boys 60 70 80 90 100 Girls 60 70 80 90 100

4. Measures of Variability or Dispersion

5. RANGE: The difference between the highest and the lowest observation R = H – L Boys: R = 100 – 60 R
= 40 Girls: R = 83 – 79 R = 4 Therefore the girls are more homogeneous than the boys in their math
ability

6. Mean Deviation: The average of the summation of the absolute deviation of each observation from
the mean. MD = Σ Xi - X n

7. BOYS Xi Xi – X Frederick 70 11 Russel 95 14 Murphy 60 21 Jerome 80 1 Tom 100 19 Mean: 81 Σ = 405 Σ


= 66 M.D = 66 / 5 = 13.2

8. GIRLS Xi Xi – X Grace 82 1 Irish 80 1 Abigail 83 2 Sherry 81 0 Kristine 79 2 Mean: 81 Σ = 405 Σ = 6 M.D =


6 / 5 = 1.2

9. MD ( boys ) = 13.2 MD ( girls ) = 1.2 - based from the computed Mean Deviation, the girls are more
homogeneous than the boys.

10. VARIANCE: The average of the squared deviation from the mean. Population Variance σ 2 = Σ ( Xi –
X ) 2 n Sample Variance s 2 = Σ ( Xi – X ) 2 n - 1

11. BOYS Xi Xi – X ( Xi – X ) 2 Frederick 70 -11 121 Russel 95 14 196 Murphy 60 -21 441 Jerome 80 -1 1
Tom 100 19 361 Mean: 81 Σ = 405 Σ = 1,120 σ2 = 1,120 / 5 s2 = 1,120 / 4 = 224 = 280

12. GIRLS Xi Xi – X ( Xi – X ) 2 Grace 82 1 1 Irish 80 1 1 Abigail 83 2 4 Sherry 81 0 0 Kristine 79 2 4 Mean:


81 Σ = 405 Σ = 10 σ2 = 10 / 5 s2 = 10 / 4 = 2 = 2.5

13. BOYS σ2 = 1,120 / 5 s2 = 1,120 / 4 = 224 = 280 GIRLS σ2 = 10 / 5 s2 = 10 / 4 = 2 = 2.5 The values of the
Variance also reveals that the score of boys are more spread out than that of the girls.

14. STANDARD DEVIATION: The square root of the Variance BOYS σ 2 = 224 s 2 = 280 σ = 14.97 s = 16.73
GIRLS σ 2 = 2 s 2 = 2.5 σ = 1.41 s = 1.58

15. Question: Why do you think the RANGE is considered an unreliable Measure of Variability?
16. Answer: The RANGE is considered unreliable because we will only use two values, the highest and
the lowest which is not a complete representation of all the observations.

17. Think about this: Why do we need to work harmoniously with everyone?

18. Recap:  What are the different Measures of Variability?  How do we compute for each measure?

19. SEATWORK: Given the table below, compute for R, MD, s, and s2 Xi l Xi – X l ( Xi – X ) 2 17 15 22 19 18
Σ=Σ=Σ=

20. Xi l Xi – X l ( Xi – X ) 2 17 1.2 1.44 15 3.2 10.24 22 3.8 14.44 19 0.8 0.64 18 0.2 0.04 Σ = 91 Σ = 9.2 Σ =
26.8

21. 1. Range = 7 2. MD = 1.84 3. s = 2.59 σ = 2.32 4. s 2 = 6.7 σ 2 = 5.36

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