A.MEASURES OF LOCATION

B.MEASURES OF SPREAD

Central tendency and measures of dispersion

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Measures of

Location Spread

Central tendency Dispersion tendency

Measures of Location (Central tendency)

1. Mean 2. Median 3. ModeCommon measures of location are

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1. Mean

a. Arithmetic Mean/Average

b. Harmonic Mean

c. Geometric Mean

Mean is of 3 types such as

Arithmetic Mean

The most widely utilized measure of central tendency is the arithmetic mean or average.

The population mean is the sum of the values of the variables under study divided by the total number of observations in the population. It is denoted by μ (‘mu’). Each value is algebraically denoted by an X with a subscript denotation ‘i’. For example, a small theoretical population whose objects had values 1,6,4,5,6,3,8,7 would be denoted X1 =1, X2 = 6, X3 = 4……. X8=7 …….1.1

Mean….

We would denote the population size with a capital N. In our theoretical population N=8. The pop. mean μ would be

Formula 1.1: The algebraic shorthand formula for a pop. mean is μ =

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• The Greek letter (sigma) indicates summation, the subscript i=1 means to start with the first observation, and the superscript N means to continue until and including the Nth observation. For the example above, would indicate the

sum of X2+X3+X4+X5 or 6+4+5+6 = 21. To reduce clutter, if the summation sign is not indexed, for example Xi, it is implied that the operation of addition begins with the first observation and continues through the last observation in a population, that is, =

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Mean…

The sample mean is defined by = Where n is the sample size. The sample mean is

usually reported to one more decimal place than the data and always has appropriate units associated with it.

The symbol (X bar) indicates that the observations of a subset of size n from a population have been averaged.

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Mean….

is fundamentally different from μ because samples from a population can have different values for their sample mean, that is, they can vary from sample to sample within the population. The population mean, however, is constant for a given population.

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Mean…..

Again consider the small theoretical population 1,6,4,5,6,3,8,7. A sample size of 3 may consists of 5,3,4 with = 4 or 6,8,4 with = 6.

Actually there are 56 possible samples of size 3 that could be drawn from the population 1.1. Only four samples have a sample mean the same as the population mean ie = μ.

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Mean…

Sample SumX3, X6, X7 4+3+8 5X2, X3, X4 6+4+5 5X5, X3, X4 6+4+5 5X8, X6, X4 7+3+5 5

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Mean…

Each sample mean is an unbiased estimate of μ but depends on the values included in the sample size for its actual value. We would expect the average of all possible ‘s to be equal to the population parameter, μ . This is in fact, the definition of an unbiased estimator of the pop. mean.

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Mean…

If you calculate the sample mean for each of the 56 possible samples with n=3 and then average these sample means, they will give an average value of 5 , that is, the pop. mean, μ. Remember that most real populations are too large or too difficult to census completely, so we must rely on using a single sample to estimate or approximate the population characteristics.

Harmonic mean

Geometric mean

n= no of obs., X1, X2, X3……..Xn are individual obs.

Median

The second measure of central tendency is the MEDIAN. The median is the middle most value of an ordered list of observations. Though the idea is simple enough, it will prove useful to define in terms of an even simple notion. The depth of a value is its position relative to the nearest extreme (end) when the data are listed in order from smallest to largest.

Median: Example 2.1

Table below gives the circumferences at chest height (CCH) in cm and their corresponding depths for 15 sugar maples measured in a forest in Ohio.

CCH 18 21 22 29 29 36 37 38 56 59 66 70 88 93 120Depth 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

No. of obs. = 15 (odd)

The population median M is the observation whose depth is d = , where N is the population size.

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Median…

A sample median M is the statistic used to approximate or estimate the population median. M is defined as the observation whose depth is d = where n is the sample size. In example 2.1 the sample size is n=15 so the depth of the sample median is d=8. the sample median X = X8 = 38 cm.

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Median: Example 2.2

The table below gives CCH (cm) for 12 cypress pines measured near Brown lake on North Stradebroke Island

CCH 17 19 31 39 48 56 68 73 73 75 80 122Depth 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3 2 1

No. of observation = 12 (even)

Since n=12, the depth of the median is = 6.5. Obviously no observation has depth 6.5 , so this is the interpretation as the average of both observations whose depth is 6 in the list above. So M = = 62 cm.

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Mode

The mode is defined as the most frequently occurring value in a data set. The mode in example 2.2 would be 73 cm while example 2.1 would have a mode of 29 cm.

Mean, median and mode concide

• In symmetrical distributions (NORMAL DISTRIBUTION), the MEAN, MEDIAN and MODE coincide.

Exercise

Hen egg sizes(ES,g) on 12 wks of lay were randomly measured in a layer flock as follows. Determine mean, median and mode of eggs. size. Hen

No.01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12

ES 44 41 47 50 49 44 46 41 39 38 45 40

Measures of Spread (dispersion)

It measures variability of data. There are 4 measures in common.

1. Range2. Variance3. Standard Deviation (SD)4. Standard Error (SE)

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Range

Range: The simplest measure of dispersion or spread of data is the RANGE

Formula: The difference between the largest and smallest observations (two extremes) in a group of data is called the RANGE.

Sample range= Xn – X1 ; Population range=XN-X1 The values Xn and X1 are called ‘sample range

limits’.

Range: ExampleMarks of Biometry of 10 students are as follows

(Full marks 100)Student ID Marks Obtained Marks ordered

01 35 80

02 40 75

03 30 70

04 25 60

05 75 40

06 80 40

07 39 39

08 40 35

09 60 30

10 70 25

Here, Range = X1-X10=80-25 = 55

Range…

The range is a crude estimator of dispersion because it uses only two of the data points and is somewhat dependent on sample size. As sample size increases, we expect largest and smallest observations to become more extreme. Therefore, sample size to increase even though population range remains unchanged. It is unlikely that sample will include the largest and smallest values from the population, so the sample range usually underestimates the population range and is ,therefore, a biased estimator.

Variance

Suppose we express each observation as a distance from the mean xi = Xi - . These differences are called deviates and will be sometimes positive (Xi is above the mean) and sometimes negative (Xi is below the mean). If we try to average the deviates, they always sum to zero. Because the mean is the central tendency or location, the negative deviates will exactly cancel out the positive deviates.

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Variance…Example X Mean Deviates

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Variance…

• To circumvent the unfortunate property , the widely used measure of dispersion called the sample variance utilizes the square of the deviates. The quantity is the sum of these squared deviates and is referred to as the corrected sum of squares (CSS). Each observation is corrected or adjusted for its distance from the mean.

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Variance…

• Formula: The CSS is utilized in the formula for the sample variance

The sample variance is usually reported to two more decimal places than the data and has units that are the square of the measurement units.

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With a similar deviation the population variance computational formula can be shown to be

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Variance…Example(unit Kg)

• Data set 3.1, 17.0, 9.9, 5.1, 18.0, 3.8, 10.0, 2.9, 21.2

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Variance…

Remember, the numerator must always be a positive number because it is sum of squared deviations.

Population variance formula is rarely used since most populations are too large to census directly.

Standard deviation (SD)

• Standard deviation is the positive square root of the variance

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Standard Error (SE)

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n= no. of observation

Exercise 2

Daily milk yield (L) of 12 cows are tabulated below. Calculate mean, median, mode, variance and standard error.

Cow no Milk yield Cow no Milk yield1 23.7 7 21.52 12.8 8 25.23 28.9 9 21.44 21.4 10 25.25 14.5 11 19.56 28.3 12 19.6

Problem 1

• Two herds of cows located apart in Malaysia gave the following amount of milk/day (L). Compute arithmetic mean, median, mode, range, variance, SD and SE of daily milk yield in cows of the two herds. Put your comments on what have been reflected from two sets of milk records as regards to their differences.

Table

Herd 1• Cow no. 1 18.25• 2 12.60• 3 15.25• 4 16.10• 5 18.25• 6 15.25• 7 12.80• 8 15.65• 9 14.20• 10 10.20• 11 10.90• 12 12.60

Herd 2• Cow no. 1 7.50• 2 6.95• 3 4.20• 4 5.10• 5 4.50• 6 6.15• 7 6.90• 8 7.50• 9 7.80• 10 10.20 • 11 6.30• 12 7.50• 13 5.75• 14 4.75

Problem 2

• Sex adjusted weaning weight of lambs in two different breeds of sheep were recorded as follows. Compute mean, median, range, variance and SE in weaning weight of lambs in two breed groups. Put your comments on various differences between the two groups.

Weaning wt. (Kg) of lambs

Breed 1• 7.5• 6.9• 8.1• 5.8• 5.9• 5.8• 6.2• 7.5• 9.1• 8.7• 8.1• 8.5

Breed 2• 5.6• 4.7• 9.8• 4.5• 6.1• 3.6• 5.7• 4.9• 5.1• 5.1• 5.9• 4.0• 9.8• 10.2

Problem No 3

In a market study data on the price (RM) of 10 kg rice were collected from 2 different markets in Malaysia. Using descriptive statistics show the differences relating to price of rice in the two markets.

Pasar 1: 20, 25, 22, 23, 22, 24, 23, 21, 25, 25,23,22,25,24,24

Pasar 2: 25, 24, 26, 23, 26, 25, 25, 26, 24, 26, 24, 23,22, 25, 26, 26, 24