Gujarati
Hindi
13.Statistics
medium

What is the standard deviation of the following series

class $0-10$ $10-20$ $20-30$ $30-40$
Freq $1$ $3$ $4$ $2$

 

A

$81$

B

$7.6$

C

$9$

D

$2.26$

Solution

Class $f$ ${y_i}$

$d = {y_i} – A,$

$A = 25$

${f_i}{d_i}$ ${f_i}d_i^2$
$0-10$ $1$ $5$ $-20$ $-20$ $400$
$10-20$ $3$ $15$ $-10$ $-30$ $300$
$20-30$ $4$ $25$ $0$ $0$ $0$
$30-40$ $2$ $35$ $10$ $20$ $200$
Total $10$     $-30$ $900$

${\sigma ^2} = \frac{{\sum {{f_i}} d_i^2}}{{\sum {{f_i}} }} – {\left( {\frac{{\sum {{f_i}} {d_i}}}{{\sum {{f_i}} }}} \right)^2}$

$=\frac{900}{10}-\left(\frac{-30}{10}\right)^{2}$

$\sigma^{2}=90-9=81 $

$\Rightarrow \sigma=9$

Standard 11
Mathematics

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