How to find Mean, variance, and standard deviation
It's important to know whether we're talking about a population or a sample, because in this section we'll be talking about variance and standard deviation , and we'll use different formulas for variance and standard deviation depending on whether we're using data from a population or data from a sample.
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Mean , variance , and standard deviation Frequency histograms and polygons, and density curves Symmetric and skewed distributions and outliers Normal distributions and z-scores Probability Simple probability The addition rule, and union vs. intersection Independent and dependent events and conditional probability Bayes' theorem Discrete random ...
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It's important to know whether we're talking about a population or a sample, because in this section we'll be talking about variance and standard deviation , and we'll use different formulas for variance and standard deviation depending on whether we're using data from a population or data from a sample.
Explore why simply averaging deviations from the mean fails (they sum to zero) and see why squaring the deviations solves this problem. Understand the necessity of taking the square root at the end to return to original units, and learn to calculate both variance and standard deviation by hand using a small dataset.
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Learn to compute weighted means for population and sample data, and extend the method to grouped data using class midpoints to estimate mean , variance , and standard deviation .
Understand standard deviation as a measure of "typical distance," spread, or consistency Explain why averaging the deviations from the mean doesn't work (they sum to zero!) Justify the step of ...
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