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Measurement of Dispersion

The coefficient of variation allows comparison of data sets with different units of measurement by expressing the standard deviation as a percentage of the mean. It indicates which data set, an English class scoring an average of 110 with standard deviation of 5 or a history class scoring an average of 106 with standard deviation of 4, has more variable scores. Since the English class coefficient of variation of 4.55% is larger than the history class coefficient of variation of 3.77%, the English class scores are more variable. Kurtosis measures the peakedness of a distribution's curve, with mesokurtic being normal, leptokurtic being more peaked, and platykurtic being flat-topped. For the example data, the k

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Measurement of Dispersion

The coefficient of variation allows comparison of data sets with different units of measurement by expressing the standard deviation as a percentage of the mean. It indicates which data set, an English class scoring an average of 110 with standard deviation of 5 or a history class scoring an average of 106 with standard deviation of 4, has more variable scores. Since the English class coefficient of variation of 4.55% is larger than the history class coefficient of variation of 3.77%, the English class scores are more variable. Kurtosis measures the peakedness of a distribution's curve, with mesokurtic being normal, leptokurtic being more peaked, and platykurtic being flat-topped. For the example data, the k

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MEASUREMENT OF

DISPERSION
COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION
• the standard deviation measures absolute and not relative
variability. it can only compare two samples that have the
same units of measure.
• a statistic that allows us to compare two different data sets
that have different units of measurement.
• this expresses the standard deviation as a percentage of the
mean.
•  
• For samples:

• For populations:
••  
Example :
• The average score of the student in one English class is 110, with a
standard deviation of 5; the average score of students in a history
class is 106, with a standard deviation of 4. Which class is more
variable in terms of score?
Solution: English class: = 4.55%
History class: = 3.77%
• Since the coefficient of variation for the English class is larger, the
scores here are more variable than the scores in the History class.
MEASURE OF KURTOSIS
• Even if the curves of distributions have the same coefficient of
skewness, these curves may still differ in the sharpness of their peaks.
This property of curves can be described using the measure of kurtosis.
• For instance, the symmetrical curves have three types:
- Normal or mesokurtic curves
- Leptokurtic curves, which are more peaked
- Platykurtic curves, which are flat- topped curves.
••  A distribution is said to be
o Mesokurtic if k= 3
o Leptokurtic if k> 3
o Platykurtic if k< 3

The formulas to compute the measure of kurtosis are


For ungrouped data set :
For grouped data set :
n – number of data in the sample s – sample standard deviation
••  Example: Calculate the measure of kurtosis for the data in example 3.
Solution : recall that the mean and the standard deviation s = 9.07 .

CLASS F X F∙X
LIMITS
90 – 98 6 94 564 -19 130 321 781 926

99 – 107 22 103 2266 -10 10 000 220 000

108 – 116 43 112 4816 -1 1 43

117 – 125 28 121 3388 8 4 096 114 688

126 - 134 9 130 1170 17 83 521 751 689

SUM 108 12204 1 868 346


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Therefore, the given distribution is platykurtic since k< 3.

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