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Lecture 3
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!!!!Lecture!4!
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Summarization!of!Data:!Algebraic!Approach!
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There!are!three!aspects!we!look!at!
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1. Where!does!the!centre!of!the!data!lie?!!
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Measures!of!Central!Tendency!
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2. How!is!the!data!spread!across!the!
centre?!
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Measures!of!Dispersion.!
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3. Is!the!data!symmetric?!
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Measures!of!skewness.!!
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!!!Central!tendency!
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• The!mean:!Given!a!numerical!data!set!
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{x1,x2,x3,...xn}
,!the!Arithmetic!Mean!is!
given!by!
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x
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=x1+x2+...xn
n=1
n
xi
i=1
n
∑
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Other!(rarely!used)!means!
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• Geometric!mean!
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G.M!=!
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(x1*x2* ...xn)1 / n
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• Harmonic!Mean!
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n
1
x1
+1
x2
+....+1
xn
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Applications:!
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(i) Average!interest!rate!
(ii) Average!Speed!
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• The!median:!This!can!be!used!when!the!
data!is!ordinal.!The!median!is!defined!to!
be!the!value!of!Q2!such!that!half!the!
observations!are!below!Q2!and!half!are!
above!Q2!
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If!we!ranked!the!data!as!x(1),!x(2),….!x(n),!
where!
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! x(1)!≤!x(2)!≤!x(3)≤…….≤x(n),!
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then!if!n!is!odd,!then!the!median!is!
x({n+1}/2).!When!n!is!even,!then!the!median!
is!½[!x(n/2)!+x((n+1)/2)]!
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• The!mode:!This!is!used!when!we!have!
grouped!or!frequency!data.!The!mode!is!
the!one!with!the!highest!frequency!
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