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Basic Statistics
Measures of Variability
Measures of Variability
The Range Deviation Score The Standard Deviation The Variance
STRUCTURE OF STATISTICS
STATISTICS
DESCRIPTIVE
INFERENTIAL
TABULAR
GRAPHICAL
NUMERICAL
CONFIDENCEINTERVALS
TESTS OF HYPOTHESIS
Continuing with numerical approaches.
NUMERICAL
STRUCTURE OF STATISTICSNUMERICAL DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES
DESCRIPTIVE
TABULAR
GRAPHICAL
NUMERICAL
CENTRALTENDENCY
VARIABILITY
SYMMETRY
STRUCTURE OF STATISTICSNUMERICAL DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES
NUMERICAL
CENTRALTENDENCY
VARIABILITY
SYMMETRY
RANGE
VARIANCE
STANDARDDEVIATION
You are an elementary school teacher who has been assigned a class of fifth graders whose mean IQ is 115. Because children with IQ of 115 can handle more complex, abstract material, you plan many sophisticated projects for the year.
Do you think your project will succeed ?
115100 130 145857055
General population
85%
We need the variability of IQs in the class!
Having graduated from college, you are considering two offers of employment. One in sales and the other in management. The pay is about
same for both. After checking out the statistics for salespersons and managers at the library, you find that those who have been working for 5
years in each type of job also have similar averages.
Can you conclude that the pay for two occupations is equal?
Is the average salary enough? We need the variability!
management Sales
Much moreMuch less
$20,000
Group of scores
Single scoreCentral Tendency measures
IQ of 100 students
Mean IQ=118
Central Tendency Measures
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Measures of Central Tendency do not tell you the differences that exist among the scores
More homogeneous
Central Tendency
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4
Same Mean---Different Variability So What?
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How many are out here?
1. The Range = The difference between the largest (Xmax) and the smallest (Xmin).
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25, 21, 22, 23, 28, 26, 24, 29
24 25 26 28 29
Range = 29 –21 = 8
22 23
A large range means there is a lot of variability in data.
10, 28, 26, 27, 29
10 26 28 29
Range = 29 –10 = 19
27
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Drawbacks of The Range
Range = 29 –26=3
The Range depends on only the two extreme scores
Because the range is determined by just two scores in the group, it ignores the spread of all scores except the largest and smallest.
One aberrant score or outlier can be greatly increase the range
Range and Extreme Observations
R
R R
Range and Measurement Scales
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3,
Country Code SES F Age
3-1=2 3-1=2 3-1=2 3-1=21=American 2=Asian 3=Mexican
1=Upper 2=Middle 3=Lower
Before you determine the Range, all scores must be arranged in order
3. The Variance
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53
88
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35 42
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81
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81
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53
27
3553
78
49
66
66
88?
Differences among Scores
Differen
ces amo
ng
Sco
res
Total Variability = Sum of Individual Variability
How can you determine the variability of each individual in group?
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The amount of Individual difference entirely depends on comparison criteria.
Can you figure out total amount of differences among scores ?
Can you figure out how much each score is different from other scores ?
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Reference score? Mean Score
You need a Common Criteria for computing Total Variability
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Reference score?49
You need a Common Criteria for computing Total Variability
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-4+3
+1
Deviation Scores
A Deviation score tells you that a particular score deviate, or differs from the mean
DEVIATION SCORE = (Xi - Mean)
A score a great distance from the mean will have large deviation score.
MeanA B C D E F
1 2
3
Total amount of variability?!
Sum of all distance values!
Sum of Deviation Scores
No way!
conceptually
mathematically
The idea makes sense…but
If you compute the sum of the deviation scores, the sum of the deviation scores equals zero!
Sum of Deviation scores =(-4) + (-3) + (-2) + 0 + (1) + (2) + (3) + (4) = 0
The Sum of Absolute Deviation Scores
Sum of absolute deviation scores ( 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 0 +1 + 2 + 3 + 4) = 20
The sum of absolute deviations is rarely used as a measure of variability because the process
of taking absolute values does not provide meaningful information for inferential statistics.
Sum of Squares of deviation scores
“SS”
Conceptually
And
Mathematically
Sum of Squares of Deviation Scores, SS
Instead of working with the absolute values of deviation scores, it is preferable to (1) square each deviation score and (2) sum them to obtain a quantity know as the Sum of Squares.
SS=(-4)+(-3)+(-2)+(-1)+0+(1)+(2)+(3)+(4) =16+9+4+1+0+1+2+9+16 =60
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
SS=i
Group of scores“A”
Group of scores“B”
SS(A)=30 SS(B)=40
Can you say that the variability of the data in Group B is greater than the data
in Group A?
So !
3, 4 3, 4 3, 4
What happens to SS when we look at some data?
Group A Group B
Mean = 3.5 Mean = 3.5
SS = (3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5) +
(3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5)
=1.00
2 2 2 2
2 2
SS = (3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5)
=.50
i=1
N
i
SS tends to increase as number of data(N) increase.
SS is not appropriate for comparing variability among groups having unequal sample size.
How can you overcome the limitation of SS
Mean
If SS is divided by N
The resulting value will beMean of the Deviation Scores (Mean
Square)
VARIANCE
N
SS
N
)X(XS
2i2
3, 4 3, 4 3, 4
Group A Group B
Mean = 3.5 Mean = 3.5
V = (3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5)
=.50/2 = .25
V = (3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5) +
(3 - 3.5) + (4 - 3.5)
= 1.00/4 = 2.5
2 2 2 2
2 2
Variance
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( )XN
Population Variance
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1s X Xn
( )
Sample Variance
N
)X(X 2i
POPULATION VARIANCE
Sigma Square Population size
Population meanIndividual value
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( )XN
SAMPLE VARIANCE SAMPLE VARIANCE
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1s X Xn
( )
Sample variance
The sample variance (S2) is used to estimate the population variance (2)
Individual value Sample Mean
Sample size-1Degree of freedom
Why n-1 instead n ?2
2
1s X Xn
( )
Sampling n
Sampling error
=
?<100<?
100
population
sample
The value of the squared deviations is less from X than from any other score .
Hence, in a sample, the value of (X-X) n would be less than n.
>n n
Ideally, a sample variance would be based on (x - )2. This is impossible since is not known if one has only a sample of n cases. is substituted by .X
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Ideal sample variance
One could correct for this bias by dividing by a factor somewhat less than n
n-1
sample n=5
If we know that the mean is equal to 5, and the first 4
scores add to 18, then the last score MUST equal 7.
n-1 are free to change
Degree of freedom
7
5
?5
n
XX
We know that ? must equal 25.
4. Standard Deviation SD
Positive square root of the variance
Population Sample
The Standard Deviation and the Mean with Normal Distribution
Normal Distribution
-1-2-3 +2 +3+1
Relationship between and
Normal Distribution
Relationship between and S
-1S -2S -3S +1S +2S +3S
68%
95%
99.9%
EMPIRICAL RULE
• For any symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution, approximately 68% of the observations will lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean; approximately 98% within 2 standard deviations of the mean; and approximately 99.9% within 3 standard deviations of the mean.
You can approximately reproduce your data!
If a set of data has a Mean=50
and SD=10,then…
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68%
95%
99%