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Lecture-5 Measures of Dispersion PQS

The document contains practice questions for measures of dispersion in descriptive statistics, including calculations for range, variance, standard deviation, and mean deviation across various data sets. It includes exercises related to patient visits, commuting times, textbook prices, and NFL salaries. Additionally, it discusses relationships between two data sets and their coefficients of variation.

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Lecture-5 Measures of Dispersion PQS

The document contains practice questions for measures of dispersion in descriptive statistics, including calculations for range, variance, standard deviation, and mean deviation across various data sets. It includes exercises related to patient visits, commuting times, textbook prices, and NFL salaries. Additionally, it discusses relationships between two data sets and their coefficients of variation.

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MT-2005 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR MESURES OF DISPERSION

EXERCISE 2.3
1. The following data set belongs to a population:
5, -7, 2, 0, -9, 16, 10, 7
Calculate the range, variance, and standard deviation.
( Ans : range  25 , var  70.28 , s.d  8.38 )

2. The following data give the number of patients who visited a walk-in clinic on
each of 20 randomly selected days.

23, 37, 26, 19, 33, 22, 30, 42, 24, 26, 28, 32, 37, 29, 38, 24, 35, 20, 34, 38

(a) Calculate the range, variance, and standard deviation for these data.
(b) Calculate the mean deviation.
( Ans : range  23 , var  45.61 , s.d  6.75 , MD  )

3. The following data give the one-way commuting times (in minutes) from home to
work for all 12 employees working at a small company.

35, 10, 22, 38, 31, 27, 53, 44, 16, 44, 25, 12

(a) Calculate the range, variance, and standard deviation for these data.
(b) Calculate the mean deviation.
( Ans : range  43 , var  184.38 , s.d  13.58 , MD  )

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4. If y  2 x  5 y  33 and var( x)  2 also p  x  3, q  x  7 and r  x 8
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then find the following
(a) p, q and r
(b) var( p) , var(q) and var(r )
(c) sd (2 p) , sdr (3q) and sd (5r )
( Ans : (a) , (b) , (c ) )

5. The following data give the prices of seven textbooks randomly selected from a
university bookstore.

$89, $170, $104, $113, $56, $161, $147

(a) Find the mean for these data. Calculate the deviations of the data values from
the mean. Is the sum of these deviations zero?
(b) Calculate the range, variance, standard deviation and mean deviation.
( Ans : mean  120 , range 114, var  1712 , s.d  41.38 , MD  )

PREPARED BY HAZBER SAMSON SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES DPT FAST ISLAMABAD


MT-2005 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

6. Find the variance , standard deviation and mean deviation of the given distribution
(a)
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
f 1 2 2 3 4 5 4
(b)
x 2 4 6 8 10 12
f 2 4 10 6 3 1

( Ans : var  , sd  , MD  )

7. NFL Salaries The salaries (in millions of dollars) for 31 NFL teams for a specific season
are given in this frequency distribution

Find variance, standard deviation, and mean deviation for the data;
( Ans : var  , sd  , MD  )
8. How Quick Are Older Dogs? The animal trainer selected a group of dogs who were
much older than the first group and measured their reaction times to the same stimulus.

Find variance , standard deviation and mean deviation for the data;
( Ans : var  , sd  , MD  )
9. The following data give the prices of seven textbooks randomly selected from a university
bookstore.
$89, $170, $104, $113, $56, $161, $147
Calculate the coefficient of variation.
( Ans :CV  )
10. Consider the following two data sets. 120
Data Set I: 12, 25, 37, 8, 41 and Data Set II: 19, 32 44 15 48
Note that each value of the second data set is obtained by adding 7 to the
corresponding value of the first data set
(a) Calculate the coefficient of variation of for both data sets and comment which
data set has larger relative variation
(b) Can we calculate mean and standard deviation of second data set on the
basis of first data on the basis of relation between them.
( Ans : mean DS  1  24.6, s.d DS  1  14.64 , CV DS  1  59.51)
( Ans : mean DS  2  31.60 , s.d DS  2 14.64 , CV DS  2  46.33 )

PREPARED BY HAZBER SAMSON SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES DPT FAST ISLAMABAD

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