MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

STATISTICS AND DATA

Lesson 3: Measures of Dispersion
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Lesson 3: Measures of Dispersion
Outline
• Measures of Dispersion
• Range
• Interquartile Range
• Variance
• Standard Deviation
• Examples
• Exercises

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Lesson 3: Measures of Dispersion
Measures of Dispersion
A single value that describes the spread of a distribution
- range
- interquartile range
- variance
- standard deviation

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Measures of Dispersion
Range:
The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset
Interquartile Range
The difference between the lower and upper quartiles
Variance
The squared distance of each observation from the mean
Standard Deviation
The square root of the variance

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Lesson 3: Measures of Dispersion
Example: 5, 15, 17, 21, 30, 48, 54, 66
Range: 66 – 5 = 61
Interquartile Range: 51 – 16 = 35
Lower quartile: 5, 15, 17, 21 Median:
Upper quartile: 30, 48, 54, 66 Median:

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Lesson 3: Measures of Dispersion
Example: 5, 15, 17, 21, 30, 48, 54, 66
Mean = 32
Variance:
5 32 729

15 32 289
Variance = 466.29
17 32 225

21 32 121

30 32 4

48 32 16 256 Standard deviation = 21.59

54 32 22 484

66 32 34 1156

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YOUR TURN
Compute for the range, interquartile range, variance, and standard
deviation:
1. 83, 76, 48, 99, 51, 51, 74, 84, 67
2. In a basketball game, a player monitors the minutes he was on
the court for the whole game: 7, 10, 8, 4, 11, 10, 6, 5
3. The number of clothes to be washed is counted by a laundromat
worker before lunch time: 12, 20, 15, 17, 22, 19, 20, 25

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