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MEASURES OF

VARIABILITY
(DISPERSION)
PROF. JOY DOMINGO
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
(DISPERSION)
 Measures of Variability
 Measures of variability, also called measures of dispersion is
a statistic calculated from a set of observations or scores and
designed to show the extent to which the individual
observations or scores are concentrated about or scattered
from the mean or other measures of central tendency.
 A group whose variability is smaller is more homogeneous
than a group with a bigger variability.
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
 Range - (DISPERSION)
The difference between the highest and the lowest score in a set of
ungrouped data.
 Example 1. Given the following sets of data, 23, 18, 24, 17, 29, 19, 15, 20,
compute for the Range.
 Solution:
 R = HS – LS
 R = 29 – 15
 R= 14
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
 (DISPERSION)
MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION
 The mean absolute deviation of a data set is the average distance between each data
point and the mean. It gives us an idea about the variability in a data set.

x x
mad 
n

x 
MAD 
N
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
 VARIANCE (DISPERSION)
 In probability theory and statistics, variance is the expectation of the squared deviation of
a random variable from its population mean or sample mean. Variance is a measure of
dispersion, meaning it is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out from their
average value
n

 ( x  x ) 2

s 2  i 1
n 1

 ( x   ) 2

 2  i 1
N
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
 (DISPERSION)
STANDARD DEVIATION
 In statistics, the standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of
a set of values. A low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the
mean of the set, while a high standard deviation indicates that the values are spread out
over a wider range.

 ( x  x ) 2

s i 1
n 1

 (x  )2
  i 1

N
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
(DISPERSION)
WORKING TABLE:
EXAMPLE 2
DETERMINE THE RANGE, MEAN ABSOLUTE
x x-x /x-x/ (x-x)
DEVIATION, STANDARD
22
DEVIATION, AND VARIANCE OF 22
THE OBSERVED VALUES 36
22,45,48,54,36,22,40,65,70,90 40
SOLUTION : 45
COMPUTE FIRST FOR THE MEAN OF 48
54
THE OBSERVED VALUES
65
70
90
Σ x = 492 Σ Σ
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
(DISPERSION)
WORKING TABLE:
EXAMPLE 3
DETERMINE THE RANGE, MEAN ABSOLUTE
DEVIATION, STANDARD
DEVIATION, AND VARIANCE OF
THE OBSERVED VALUES
22,45,48,54,36,22,40,65,70,90
MEASURES OF VARIABILITY
(DISPERSION)
WORKING TABLE:
ACTIVITY: x x-x /x-x/ (x-x)
DETERMINE : 42
49
A. MEAN,
51
B. MEDIAN
51
C.MODE,
55
D. RANGE 59
E. MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION 59
F. STANDARD DEVIATION, 65
G. VARIANCE OF 78
THE GIVEN OBSERVED VALUES 93
100
TOTAL = TOTAL= TOTAL= TOTAL=
SOLUTION:
END OF
LECTURE

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