Module 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts

MODULE 1.
Definition of Statistical Concepts

and Principles
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• To understand the basic concepts

used in statistics and to differentiate
inferential and statistical statistics.

Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics
Probability is a branch of mathematics concerned with

theories of uncertainty, ways of measuring uncertainty
and the application of techniques involving uncertainty.
Statistics is a branch of mathematics that examine and

investigate ways to process and analyzed the data
gathered.

TWO MAJOR AREAS OF STATISTICS
1.Descriptive Statistics - includes those methods

concerned with collecting, organizing, summarizing and
presenting data without drawing inference about a large
group.
2.Inferential Statistics - refers to those methods
concerned with the analysis of a subset of data leading to
predictions and inferences about the entire set of data.
- also called Inductive Statistics or Statistical Inference
STATISTICAL TERMS
Population - consist of the totality of the observations with
which we are concerned
Sample - collection of some of the elements obtained from the
population
Parameter - any numerical value describing a characteristics
of a population
Statistic - any numerical value describing a characteristic of a
sample
Constant - characteristics or properties whereby the members
of the population are the same
Variable - is a characteristics that changes or varies over time
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for different individuals or objects under consideration
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TYPES OF VARIABLE
1.Qualitative Variables - measure a quality or characteristic on each
experimental unit
Examples: eye color, gender
2.Quantitative Variables - measure a numerical quantity or amount on
each experimental unit
Examples: number of accidents, volume in a glass, weight of
package
a. Discrete variable - countable number of values
Example: number of family members
b. Continuous variable - uncountable number of
values
Examples: time, distance, volume, height
VARIABLES ACCORDING TO SCALE OF MEASUREMENT
1. Nominal - values represent categories with no inherent order

Examples: Gender, Civil Status
2. Ordinal - values represent categories with inherent order (ranking)
Examples: Educational background, Quality of Service, Grades
3.Interval - values represent ordered categories with equal intervals
between them
Example: temperature
4. Ratio - comparing the z variables
Example: employment size
DATA GATHERING INSTRUMENTS
1. QUESTIONNAIRES
2. INTERVIEWS
3. EXPERIMENTS
4. OBSERVATIONS

Sampling Method
1. Simple Random Sampling
2. Stratified Random Sampling
3. Systematic Random Sampling
4. Cluster Sampling
5. Stage Sampling
6. Slovin’s Formula

How to Present Data?

1. Graphs
2. Table charts

Graphs for Qualitative Data
- what values of the variable have been measured
- how often each values has occurred
Three Measures available for this purpose
1.Frequency - the number of times a score or group of score (class)
occurs in a population or sample
2.Relative Frequency - the frequency of one score or group of scores
divided by the total frequency of all the observations
Relative Frequency = frequency/n
where n is the sum of frequencies
3.The percentage of measurement in each category
To display distribution of data:
Pie Chart - circular graph that shows how the measurements are
distributed among the categories
[one sector of a circle is assigned to each category; the angle of
each sector should be proportional to the proportion of
measurements (or relative frequency) in that category Angle =
relative frequency x 360°]
Bar Chart - the height of the bar measures how often a particular
category was observed
Sample Problem
In a summary concerning public
education, 400 school US Education rating by 4000 educators
administrators were asked to Rating Frequency
rate the quality of education in A 35
the United States. Their B 260
responses are summarized as
follows: C 93
D 12
Construct both a Pie chart and
Total 400
Bar chart to describe the data.
Relative
Rating Frequency Percent Angle
Frequency
A 35 0.09 9% 32.4°
B 260 0.65 65% 234°
C 93 0.23 23% 82.8°
D 12 0.03 3% 10.8°
Total 400 1.0 100% 360°

Pie chart Bar graph

*Describing data by the amount measured in each category:
1.Pie Chart - displays how the total quantity is distributed among
categories
2.Bar Chart - uses the height of the bar to display the amount in a
particular category
*Describing data by time series:
1. Line Chart - when a quantitative variable is recorded overtime at
equally spaced intervals (such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly), the
data set forms a time series. Time series data are most effectively
presented on a line chart with time as the horizontal axis.

*Describing data by frequency of occurrence:
1. Relative Frequency Histogram - For a quantitative data set is a bar

graph in which the height of the bar represents the proportion or relative
frequency of occurrence for a particular class or sub-interval being
measured. The classes or sub-intervals are plotted along the horizontal
axis.
2. Frequency Distribution
a.For ungrouped data - It is a tabulation of data showing the frequency
of occurrence of the different values of the variable.
b.For grouped data - It is a tabulation of data showing the number of
observations that fall in each of the classes.
c. Class/Class Interval - a symbol defining the arbitrary groupings.
Example: 9-11
d. Class Limits - the end numbers of the class or class interval.
Example: 9 and 11 where 9 is the lower class limit and 11 is the
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e. Class Interval Size - difference between two successive lower class
limits or two successive upper class limits.
f. Class Boundary - halfway between the lower limit of one class and
the upper limit of the preceding. It is the exact limit.
Example: In the interval 9-11, 8.5 is the lower class boundary and
11.5 is the upper class boundary
g. Class Mark - the midpoint between the upper and lower class
boundaries or class limits of a class interval
h. Class Width - the difference between upper and lower class
boundaries of a class interval
i.Class Frequency (f) - the number of observations falling in a particular
class.
j.Relative Frequency - the frequency of one observation or group of
observations divided by the total frequency of all observations.
k.Cumulative Frequency - the frequency of any class plus the frequencies of
all preceeding class in a distribution.
l.Histogram - a vertical bar graph that shows the frequencies of scores or
classes of scores by the height of the bar.
m.Frequency Polygon - a graph on which the frequencies of classes are
plotted at the class mark and the class marks are connected by straight lines.
Sample Problem:
The following scores represent the final examination grade for an elementary
statistic course.
23 60 79 32 57 74 57 70 82 36 80 77 81 95 41 65 92 85 55 76 52 10 64 75 78
25 80 98 81 67 41 71 83 54 64 72 88 62 74 43 60 78 89 76 84 48 84 90 15 79
34 67 17 82 69 74 63 80 85 61
Using 10 intervals with the lowest starting at 10 set up a frequency

distribution or cumulative frequency distribution.

Frequency Cumulative Frequency Class Class
Class
(f) Cf< Boundary Mark
90-99 4 60 89.5-99.5 94.5
80-89 14 56 79.5-89.5 84.5
*70-79 14 42 69.5-79.5 74.5
60-69 11 28 59.5-69.5 64.5
50-59 5 17 49.5-59.5 54.5
40-49 4 12 39.5-49.5 44.5
30-39 3 8 29.5-39.5 34.5
20-29 2 5 19.5-29.5 24.5
10-19 3 3 9.5-19.5 14.5
n = 60
The Choice of a Graph
1.Histogram - is to be preferred when only one distribution is to be
presented.
2.Frequency Polygon - more useful and better in comparing two or
more distribution graphically on the same axes.
3.The ogive - is useful in making estimates of quantities, medians and
other similar points of relative positions.
4.The Pie diagram - or circle graph is useful when one wishes to
picture proportions in a striking way.
Note: The choice of the graph or graphs to use depends on the judgment
of the user based on the purposes or intentions that he/she has in using
these graphical representation of data.
Properties of Frequency Distribution
Frequency distributions differ from each other in terms of their four
important properties: central location, variation, skewness and
kurtosis.
1.Central location - refers to the value near the center of frequency
distribution.
2.Variation -refers to the extent of spreading out of individual
measures from the measure of central tendency.
3.Kurtosis refers to the flatness or peakedness of one distribution is
relation another.
4. Skewness refers to the symmetry or asymmetry of a frequency
distribution.
Measures of Central Tendency
Three Measures of Central Tendency
Any measure indicating the center of a set of data arranged
in an increasing or decreasing order of magnitude.
1. Mean - the arithmetic average of all the scores or group of
scores in a distribution. It is denoted by the symbol (μ) for
population mean and X-bar for sample mean.
For ungrouped data:
X  X
n
where X = score or measures in the series
n = number of measures in the series
Mean for Ungrouped data:
Example: Given the scores of 7 students on a quiz [ 65 54 83

89 70 75 84], Find the mean?
X  X
=
65548389 70 7584
n 7
X  74.29

For Grouped data:
X  fM i
where
n f = frequency
M = midpoint or class mark
or
X A (
fd )i
where
f = frequency
n M = class mark
A = assumed mean
n = number of observation in a sample
Frequen
Class CF Class mark f(M) d fd
cy
(f)
90-99 4 60 94.5 378 2 8
80-89 14 56 84.5 1183 1 14
*70-79 14 42 74.5 1043 0 0
60-69 11 28 64.5 709.5 -1 -11
50-59 5 17 54.5 272.5 -2 -10
40-49 4 12 44.5 178 -3 -12
30-39 3 8 34.5 103.5 -4 -12
20-29 2 5 24.5 49 -5 -10
10-19 3 3 14.5 43.5 -6 -18
∑f = n = 60 ∑fM = 3960 ∑fd = -51
For Grouped data:
X  fM i
 3 9 6 0  66
n 60
or
X A (
 fd
)i  74.5  ( -51 )* 10  66
n 60

2. Median - point on the scale of measurement that divides a series
of ranked observations into halves such that half of the
observations fall above it and the other half fall below it.
For ungrouped data:
The median is the middle value if there is an odd number of
observations
n1
Median = th largest observation
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Example: For the observations 7 9 2 4 3

“4” is the median
The median is the average or mean of the two middle scores if there
is an even number of observation median = midpoint between the
n n
( ) observation and the [ +1]th observation
th
2 2
Example: For the observations:

2 3 4 7 9 11
n
2 th observation = 3rd observation which is 4
[ n +1]th largest observation = 4th observation which is 7

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Median = 5.5
For Grouped data:
0.5n - fc
Median = L  ( )i
fm
Where
L = exact lower limit of the class containing the median
fc = sum of all frequencies below L
fm = frequency of the class interval containing the median
n = number of cases or observations
i = class interval
Frequency
Class Class mark f(M) d fd
(f)
90-99 4 94.5 378 2 8
80-89 14 84.5 1183 1 14
*70-79 14 74.5 1043 0 0
60-69 11 64.5 709.5 -1 -11
50-59 5 54.5 272.5 -2 -10
40-49 4 44.5 178 -3 -12
30-39 3 34.5 103.5 -4 -12
20-29 2 24.5 49 -5 -10
10-19 3 14.5 43.5 -6 -18
∑f = n = 60

For Grouped data:
0.5n - fc
Median = L  ( )i
fm
0.5(60) – 28
Median = 69.5  ( )*10 = 70.93
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3. Mode -point on the measurement scale with the maximum
frequency in the given distribution
For ungrouped data:
Mode is the measurement which occurs most frequently
Example: Find the mode of the following data
4 7 7 7 9 10 12 11
13 13 13 13 13 13 15 16

Mode is 13

For grouped data:
∆1
Mode = L  ( )*i
∆1 + ∆2

Frequency
Class Class mark f(M) d fd
(f)
90-99 4 94.5 378 2 8
80-89 14 84.5 1183 1 14
*70-79 14 74.5 1043 0 0
60-69 11 64.5 709.5 -1 -11
50-59 5 54.5 272.5 -2 -10
40-49 4 44.5 178 -3 -12
30-39 3 34.5 103.5 -4 -12
20-29 2 24.5 49 -5 -10
10-19 3 14.5 43.5 -6 -18
∑f = n = 60


For grouped data:
3
Mode = 69.5  ( )*10 = 79.5
3+0

Assessment Task 1: Measures of Central Tendency
Annual Salary Number of Faculty
P49,000-58,999 10
39,000-48,999 35
29,000-38,999 20
19,000-28,999 8
Determine the following:
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode

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MODULE 1.

Definition of Statistical Concepts

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• To understand the basic concepts

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Probability is a branch of mathematics concerned with

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that examine and

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1.Descriptive Statistics - includes those methods

1. Nominal - values represent categories with no inherent order

DATA GATHERING INSTRUMENTS

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How to Present Data?

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B 260 0.65 65% 234°

C 93 0.23 23% 82.8°

Total 400 1.0 100% 360°

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Pie chart Bar graph

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Graphs for Qualitative Data

1. Relative Frequency Histogram - For a quantitative data set is a bar

Using 10 intervals with the lowest starting at 10 set up a frequency

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Example: Given the scores of 7 students on a quiz [ 65 54 83

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Example: For the observations 7 9 2 4 3

Example: For the observations:

[ n +1]th largest observation = 4th observation which is 7

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Three Measures of Central Tendency

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Three Measures of Central Tendency

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