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Median
Use the following calculations to find the median for agrouped frequency
distribution. Figure out which interval contains the median by using the (n +
1) ÷ 2 formula. Take whatever value the calculation gives you and then add
up the numbers in the frequency column until you come to that value (just
like Example 3).
In order to calculate the median, the data must first be ranked (sorted in
ascending order). The median is the number in the middle.
The median is usually calculated for numeric variables, but may also be
calculated for categorical variables that are sequenced, such as the
categories in a satisfaction survey: excellent, good, satisfactory and poor.
These qualitative categories can be ranked in order, and thus, are
considered ordinal.
Mode
The mode of a set of data is simply the value that appears most frequently in the
set. If two or more values appear with the same frequency, each is a mode.
The standard deviation formula may look confusing, but it will make
sense after we break it down. In the coming sections, we'll walk through
a step-by-step interactive example. Here's a quick preview of the steps
we're about to follow:
Step 2: For each data point, find the square of its distance to the mean.
On the other hand, the ungrouped data has not been classified or has not been
subdivided in the form of groups. This type of data is totally the raw data. Ungrouped
data is just in the form of number list. It is the data collected in original form. We can say
that ungrouped data is an array of numbers.
An ungrouped data can be converted into grouped data by noting down their
frequencies and by rearranging them into class-intervals according to the requirement of
the experiment. In this page, we are going to focus only on ungrouped data. We shall
study about the computation of basic statistical concepts, such as - mean, median,
mode, standard deviation and variance, for ungrouped data
Formula
Median
Median. ... It means that when the data are arranged, the median is the middle
value if the number of values is odd and the mean of the two middle values if the
number of values is even.
Formula
Median = Value of (n+12)th(n+12)th item
Example:
Find the median of the values 4, 1, 8, 13, 11
Solution:
Arrange the data 1, 4, 8, 11, 13
Median = Value of (n+12)th(n+12)th item
Median = Value of (n+12)th(n+12)th item = (62)th=3th(62)th=3thitem
Median = 8
Example:
Find the median of the values 5, 7, 10, 20, 16, 12
Solution:
Arrange the data 5, 7, 10, 12, 16, 20
Median = Value of (n+12)th(n+12)th item
Median = Value of (n+12)th(n+12)thitem = (72)th=3.5th(72)th=3.5thitem
Median = 10+122=1110+122=11
Median from Ungrouped Data
For the median of grouped data, we find the cumulative frequencies and then calculate
the median number n2n2. The median lies in the group (class) which corresponds to the
cumulative frequency in which n2n2 lies. We use the following formula to find the
median.
Median=l+hf(n2−c)
Mode
Mode is the value which occurs the greatest number of times in the data. When
each value occurs the same number of times in the data, there is no mode. If two or
more values occur the same number of times, then there are two or more modes
and the distribution is said to be multi-mode. If the data has only one mode the
distribution is said to be uni-model, and for data having two modes the distribution
is said to be bi-model.
Formula
Mode from Grouped Data
With frequency distribution with equal class interval sizes, the class which has the
maximum frequency is called the model class.
Mode=l+fm−f1(fm−f1)+(fm−f2)×hMode=l+fm−f1(fm−f1)+(fm−f2)×h
Here
ll= Lower class boundary of the model class
fmfm= Frequency of the model class (maximum frequency)
f1f1= Frequency preceding the model class frequency
f2f2= Frequency following the model class frequency
hh= Class interval size of the model class
Deciles
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Percentiles
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Quartiles
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