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The document discusses measures of variability including range, average deviation, variance, and standard deviation. It provides examples of calculating each measure using sample data sets and formulas. An activity at the end asks students to calculate these measures for additional data sets.

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Measure of Variability Ungrouped Data

The document discusses measures of variability including range, average deviation, variance, and standard deviation. It provides examples of calculating each measure using sample data sets and formulas. An activity at the end asks students to calculate these measures for additional data sets.

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Illustrates and Calculates the

Measures of Variability
(range, average deviation,
variance and standard
deviation) of a Statistical Data
ACTIVITY
Instruction: Solve for the mean, median and
mode of the ungrouped data set below.
Measures of Variability
Ungrouped Data
In statistics, variability refers
to the spread in a set of data.
The simplest way to measure the variabil-
ity is the range.
Range is suitable for showing the spread
within a data set and for comparing the
spread between similar data sets.
To find the range we use the formula:
Range = maximum value – minimum value
Example:
Data Set A: 10, 9, 7, 7, 8, 9, 6, 7, 8
From the data set given above, the max-
imum value is 10 and the minimum value
is 6. Thus, the range of the data set is,
Range = 10 – 6 = 4
Data Set B: 35, 40, 55, 48, 25, 31, 52
From our second data set, the maximum
value is 55 and the minimum value is 25.
Thus, the range of the data set is,
Range = 55 – 25 = 30
And by comparing the range of data sets,
we can say that data set B is a more
spread out compared to data set A be-
cause it has a larger range
Average deviation
This measure tells us how
far each data is from
the mean.
Example:
Data Set 1: 6, 8, 5, 5, 6
First we need to calculate forNext, we subtract the mean
the mean. So, from every value in our data
𝑥̅= set. Then take the absolute
5 value of the results.
=30
5
=6
Lastly, solve for the average deviation
by taking the sum of the absolute values
obtained, divided by the total number of
data
Variance
It measures how far a set of numbers is
spread out from the mean. To calculate
the variance, we use the formula:
Example:
Solve for the variance of the given data set be-
low (assuming that the data set is the entire
population).
Data Set: 10, 15, 25, 10, 12, 18
First, calculate the mean of the data set,
Next, solve for ∑(𝑥 − 𝑥̅)²
. To get the sum of squares, subtract the
mean
from each values, square it and add them all.
Lastly, solve for the population variance
by
using the formula,
Conversely, if the data set is just a sample of
an entire population then we will use the for-
mula for the sample variance,
Square root of the variance called the
standard deviation
It measures the spread around the mean
making it the most reliable measure of variabil-
ity.
In symbols,
Let us use the same data set from our previous ex-
ample,
Data Set: 10, 15, 25, 10, 12, 18
We already found out that the variance for this data
set is,
To get the standard deviation we’ll just take the square root
of the variance. We have,
ACTIVITY
Compute for the range, average deviation, vari-
ance and standard deviation of each set of un-
grouped data considering that these are samples
data sets. Write
your answers on a separate answer sheet and
round your answers to the nearest hundredths.
1) 6, 12, 11, 9, 14, 12
Range: _______ Ave.
Dev.: _____
Variance: ______
2) 16, 14, 26, 26, 16, 26, 24, 22, 24, 25
Range: _______ Ave. Dev.: __________
Variance: ___________ Standard Dev.: _______

3) 5, 6, 4.5, 5.2, 2.6, 2.8, 5.3, 4.3


Range: _______ Ave. Dev.: __________
Variance: ___________ Standard Dev.: _______
4) 1.81, 1.63, 1.42, 1.8, 0.95, 0.76, 1.23, 1.15,
1.24
Range: _______ Ave. Dev.: __________
Variance: ___________ Standard Dev.: ________

5) 96, 96, 87, 88, 81, 95, 93, 91, 95, 88


Range: _______ Ave. Dev.: __________
Variance: ___________ Standard Dev.: _________

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