EDELYN L.

CANTIVEROS
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-Student Teacher-
“Classroom Rules”
RESPECT
everyone at all times.
 Topic:
Computing the Mean,
Variance, and Standard
Deviation of a Discrete
Random Variable
 “What is expected
mean or mean value”
 The mean is considered as a
measure of the central location of a
random variable. It is the weighted
average of the values that random
variable X can take, with weights
provided by the probability
distribution.
 Steps in Computing EXPECTED VALUE or
MEAN VALUE of a Discrete Random
Variable X

STEP 1. Multiply each possible X value by the

probability of the observing value

STEP 2. Add the resulting quantities

 MEAN () OF A PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION

or

Where
- , , are the values of the random variable X,
- , P(, are the corresponding probabilities.
Example 1: Construct a probability distribution for rolling a
single die. Find the expected value or the mean. Compute the
Variance and Standard Deviation of the probability distribution.

X P(X) X. P(X)
1 1/6 1/6
2 1/6 2/6
3 1/6 3/6
4 1/6 4/6
5 1/6 5/6
6 1/6 6/6

or 3.5
Example 1: Construct a probability distribution for rolling a
single die. Find the expected value or the mean. Compute the
Variance and Standard Deviation of the probability
distribution.
X 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(X) 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6

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or 3.5
 What is
variance?
 A variance is a statistical
measurement of the spread between
numbers in a data set. More
specifically, variance measures how far
each number in the set is from the mean
(average), and thus from every other
number in the set.
VARIANCE OF A PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION

= [(X-
or
=
What is standard
deviation?
 A standard deviation is a statistic
that measures the dispersion of a
dataset relative to its mean and is
calculated as the square root of the
variance.
STANDARD DEVIATION (σ) OF
A PROBABILITY
DISTRIBUTION
σ
or

σ
 Steps in Computing Variance:
Step 1: Find the mean
Step 2: Subtract the values of x to the mean.
Step 3: Square the product of step 2.
Step 4: Multiply the result of step 3 to the
corresponding probability.
Step 5: Add the result of step 4.
 X 1 2 3 4 5 6
1/6 1/6 1/6 2.92 (variance)
P(X) 1/6 1/6 1/6

Solution

σ (standard deviation)
Example 1: Construct a probability distribution for rolling a
single die. Find the expected value or the mean. Compute the
Variance and Standard Deviation of the probability
distribution.
X 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(X) 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6 1/6
EXAMPLE 2. Compute the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the ff.
probability distribution.

X P(X) X.P(X) X- . P(X)

0 1/8 0 -1.5 2.25 0.28125
1 3/8 3/8 -0.5 0.25 0.09375
2 3/8 6/8 0.5 0.25 0.09375
3 1/8 3/8 1.5 2.25 0.28125

= [(X-
12/8 =
ADDITIONAL INFO. :
ASSIGNMENT
Direction: Answer the question of the given
problem.

Kagura is paid 20 pesos whenever the

results of tossing two coins are both heads but
pays 10 pesos whenever the results are not
both heads. What is the expected gain per
loss?
THANK YOU!