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AMERUSE
SIPINOOT
MEASURES OF
POSITION
(UNGROUPED DATA)
MEASURES OF POSITION
➢IT IS A NUMBER THAT TELLS
WHERE THE SCORE STANDS
RELATIVE TO OTHERS IN A SET
OF DATA.
➢IT CAN BE APPLIED TO ORDINAL
VARIABLES.
THE MEASURES
OF POSITION
▪QUARTILE
▪DECILE
▪PERCENTILE
QUARTILE
▪The quartiles are the
score points which
divide a distribution
into four equal parts.
The difference between
Q3 and Q1 is the
interquartile range.
FORMULA
𝑘
𝑄𝑘 = (𝑛 + 1)
4
EXAMPLES
 ACTIVITY#1
Find the Q1, Q2 and Q3 of
the data. The number of
days taken by each of 11
employees to finish a job
were 32 39 27 23 42 35 42
29 46 37 42.
DECILE
▪The deciles are the nine
score points which divide
the distribution into ten
equal parts.
FORMULA
𝑘
𝐷𝑘 = (𝑛 + 1)
10
EXAMPLES
 ACTIVITY#2
FIND THE 6 TH DECILE (D6)
AND 3 RD DECILE (D3) GIVEN
THE SCORES OF 10
STUDENTS IN THEIR QUIZ.
10, 44, 50, 20, 25, 36, 31,
15, 18, 43
 PERCENTILE
▪The percentiles are the ninety-
nine score points which divide a
distribution into one hundred
equal parts, so that each part
represents the data set.
1% of the data has a value ≤ 𝑷𝟏
2% of the data has a value ≤ 𝑷𝟐
3% of the data has a value ≤ 𝑷𝟑
.
.
.
99% of the data has a value ≤ 𝑷𝟗𝟗
FORMULA
𝑘
𝑃𝑘 = (𝑛 + 1)
100
EXAMPLES
 ACTIVITY#3
THE TEST SCORE SAMPLE OF
15 STUDENTS IN A CLASS
ARE AS FOLLOWS: {20, 25, 21,
19, 15, 10, 27, 30, 31, 35, 33,
37, 40, 42, 45} FIND P32, P65,
P80
EQUALITY
SUMMARY
THANK YOU ☺