Activity 6 (Reflection)

Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion/Variability

Massive amounts of data are collected, and in order to convey it

meaningfully, it must be summarized. The bulkiness of the data can be decreased by
organizing it into a frequency table or histogram.[1] Frequency distribution divides the
massive amount of data into a few understandable categories. Data collected can
alternatively be summarized as a single index/value that represents the complete data
set. These indicators may also aid in data comparability. Central Tendency measures
provide a summary measure that seeks to summarize an entire set of data with a single
value that represents the middle or center of its distribution. The mean, median, and
mode are the three primary measurements of central tendency. When data is properly
distributed, the mean, median, and mode should all be similar and effective in
displaying the most common value of a data collection. When assessing measures of
central tendency, it is critical to consider the dispersion of a data set. Variability
Measures A measure of variance describes how spread out or scattered a set of data is.
It is also known as dispersion measures or spread measures. There are three types of
variation measures: range, variance, and standard deviation. The range of a distribution
is the true upper limit minus the true lower limit. In terms of visuals, the Range =
Highest value – Lowest value. The range for this piece of data in the sample we were
given is 8. This is because the sample's greatest value was 8, and its lowest value was
0. If I enter the data set's numbers into the formula, range = 8-0. We get an answer of
8. We get an answer of 8. The interquartile range is the distance between the end of
the first and beginning of the third quartiles of a distribution. The IQR is calculated
using the formula IQR = (QU-QL). Quartiles are the points in a distribution that
correspond to the first quarter of the data set, the first half of the data set, and the top
quarter of the data set. Having stated that, you must first determine the quartiles
before determining the interquartile range. Our quartiles in the provided sample are as
follows: QL (lower quartile) = 0.75, QM (median) = 2, and QU (upper quartile) = 3.5.
The next step was to enter these figures into the IQR formula. IQR = (3.5 –0.75),
resulting in an interquartile range of 2.75. The variance is a statistic that measures a
distribution's variability as the average squared deviation of each data point from the
mean of all data points. The variance formula is 2 = (Xi - X) 2 / N. (Stat Treck, 2015).
This formula states that each data point should be subtracted from the mean, then
squared, then summed, and then divided by N, which represents the total number of
data points (Bachman & Schutt, 2014). The mean for the provided sample is 2.5. Now,
I'm not constructing a table for the purpose of reading time, but the difference came to
5.45.

MARY ANGEL ROSE D. CLAVEL BPED 2-A