STAT 101 - Formulas
STAT 101 - Formulas
̅=
𝒙 Mean for ungrouped data. Summation of x divided by n
𝒏
∑ 𝒇(𝑪𝑴) Arithmetic Mean for grouped data where 𝐶𝑀 is the class mark and 𝑛
̅=
𝒙 is the total number of data values.
𝒏
𝒏 Median for grouped data where 𝐿𝑚 is the lower boundary of the
− 𝑭𝒎 median class, 𝐹𝑚 is the less than cumulative frequency of the class
̃ = 𝑳𝒎 + (𝟐
𝒙 )𝒄
𝒇𝒎 above the median class, 𝑓𝑚 is the frequency of the median class, 𝑐 is
the class width, and 𝑛 is the total number of data values.
𝑮𝑴 = 𝒏√(𝒂𝟏 )(𝒂𝟐 )(𝒂𝟑 ) … (𝒂𝒏 ) Geometric Mean
∑𝒏𝒊=𝟏 𝒙𝒊 𝒘𝒊
𝑾𝑴 = 𝒏 Weighted Mean
∑𝒊=𝟏 𝒘𝒊
∑𝒏𝒌=𝟏|𝒙𝒌 − 𝒙
̅|
𝑴𝑨𝑫 = Mean Absolute Deviation
𝑵
𝑺𝑫
𝑪𝑽 = Coefficient of Variation
̅
𝒙
𝑯𝑽 Variation Ratio where 𝐻𝑉 is the highest value in the data set and 𝑁0
𝑽𝑹 = 𝟏 −
𝑵𝟎 is the sum of all the values in the data set.
̅)𝟐
∑(𝒙 − 𝒙
𝑽= Variance for ungrouped data
𝒏−𝟏
̅)𝟐
∑ 𝒇(𝑪𝑴 − 𝒙
𝑽= Variance for grouped data
𝒏−𝟏
̅)𝟐
∑(𝒙 − 𝒙
𝑺𝑫 = √ Standard Deviation for ungrouped data
𝒏−𝟏
̅)𝟐
∑ 𝒇(𝑪𝑴 − 𝒙
𝑺𝑫 = √ Standard Deviation for grouped data
𝒏−𝟏
If the problem is looking for the actual score given the percentile,
𝑷 use this to get the rank of the score. Then solve for the actual score
𝑹= (𝑵 + 𝟏) by separating the whole number and the decimal. Example:
𝟏𝟎𝟎
If the computed rank is 4.31,
𝑃𝑛 = 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘 4 + 0.31(𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘 5 − 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘 4)