VARIANCE AND STANDARD DEVIATION

Teacher: Mrs. Maribeth S. Galo

OBJECTIVES
• To find the variance of a data set
• To find the standard deviation of a set
Variance

is the average squared deviation from the

mean of a set of data.
It is used to find the standard deviation
Variance is widely used in hypothesis testing
TWO TYPES OF VARIANCE
Variance Formula

The Variance formula

includes the
Summation Notation.
Sample variance is used to measure the spread of the data points in a given data set
around the mean.

Population variance is a type of variance that is used to determine the

variability of the population data with respect to the mean
TWO TYPES OF DATA IN STATISTICS
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• Ungrouped data- When the data has not been organized

and remains in its raw form it is known as
ungrouped data.
2.Grouped data - When data is classified into categories and is
presented in a methodical form, it is called grouped
data.
Process to Find theVariance

• Find the Mean of the data.

• Subtract the mean from each value - the rsult is
called the deviation from the mean.
• Square each deviation of the mean.
• Find the sum of the squares .
• Divide the total by the number of items
EXAMPLES

• Find the variance for the following set of data

representing trees in California (heights in feet:
3, 21, 98, 17, 9
• Given data set ( 4.5 , 9.8, 2.3, 5.3,8.9),
Find the variance.
ACTIVITY

• The data set is given as ( 5 , 6, 1 ),

Find the variance.