Variability: Range and Standard Deviation
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What does variability measure in a distribution?

  • The most frequent score in the distribution
  • The central tendency of the scores
  • The number of scores in the distribution
  • The degree to which scores are spread out or clustered together (correct)

Which symbol represents the population mean?

  • s
  • s²
  • N
  • µ (correct)

Which of the following is a measure of variability?

  • Range (correct)
  • Mean
  • Median
  • Mode

How is the range calculated?

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What does a larger range indicate?

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What is a limitation of using the range as a measure of variability?

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Which measure of variability is especially useful for normal distributions?

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What does the Standard deviation use as a reference point?

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What does 'SD' stand for in statistics?

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In the formula for standard deviation using organized data, what does 'n' represent?

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What is the relationship between standard deviation and variance?

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If the standard deviation of a dataset is 5, what is the variance?

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In research reports, what two descriptive statistics are commonly reported together for numerical scores?

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What is the purpose of measures of position?

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What does CM stand for in the example data table?

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What do quartiles divide ranked data into?

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How many quartiles are there in a set of data?

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In the quartile formula, what does 'L' represent?

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What does 'cfb' stand for in the quartile formula?

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If Q1 is 5.5, approximately what percentage of scores fall below this value?

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Which quartile represents the median of the data?

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If Q3 is 11.5, approximately what percentage of the data falls below this value?

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What is the first step in calculating quartiles?

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In the formula for quartiles, what does 'fm' represent?

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What does 'SD' stand for in the context of these formulas?

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In the Raw Score Method, what does 'n' represent?

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Which method calculates the standard deviation using the original scores directly?

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In the Deviation Score Method, what does 'x - x' represent?

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What is the first step in the Deviation Score Method?

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Why is it important to square the deviation scores $(x - x)$ in the Deviation Score Method?

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In both methods, why do we subtract 1 from 'n' in the denominator when calculating standard deviation?

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If the standard deviation is a small number, what does this indicate about the data?

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What does a percentile measure?

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In the percentile formula, what does 'L' represent?

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What does 'cfb' stand for in the percentile formula?

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According to the example, what percentage of scores fall below the 50th percentile?

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What is the value of i in the percentile formula?

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What is the cumulative percentage (CP) of the class interval 12-14?

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Which class interval contains the 95th percentile?

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What is the relative requency (rf) of the class interval 6-8?

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Flashcards

Variability

Measures the spread or clustering of scores in a distribution.

Mean

The average value.

Standard Deviation

A measure of how spread out numbers are.

Variance

Square of standard deviation.

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N

Total number of scores or observations in a population.

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n

The number of scores in a sample.

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Range

Distance from the largest to smallest score in a distribution.

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Range Formula

Highest Value – Lowest Value

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SD Formula (Organized Data)

Formula used to calculate standard deviation within grouped data.

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How to Find Variance

Square the standard deviation

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Reporting Descriptive Statistics

Include mean & standard deviation.

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Measure of Position

A value describing a specific data point's location within the dataset.

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Standard Deviation (reporting)

Reported as M = (mean), SD = (standard deviation)

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How to Find the Total Number of Data Points (n)

Σf = 40 (n)

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Raw Score Method

A method for calculating standard deviation directly from raw data, without first calculating deviations from the mean.

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Scores (X)

Represents an individual data point in a dataset.

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Squared Score (X²)

The square of each individual score (X).

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ΣX (Sum of X)

The sum of all individual scores in a dataset.

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ΣX² (Sum of X squared)

The sum of the squares of all individual scores.

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Deviation Score Method

A method for calculating standard deviation based on the deviations of each data point from the mean.

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Deviation Score (x - x)

A score's difference from the mean of the data set.

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Σ (x - x)²

The sum of all squared deviation score.

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What are Quartiles?

Values that divide ranked data into four equal parts.

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What is 'L' in the quartile formula?

Lower boundary of the interval containing the ith quartile.

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What is 'i' in the quartile formula?

The width of the class interval.

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What does 'N' represent?

Total number of observations in the data set.

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What is 'cfb'?

Cumulative frequency of the class before the quartile class.

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What is 'fm'?

Frequency of the interval containing the ith quartile.

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What is Q1?

The first quartile; 25% of data falls below this value.

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What is Q2?

The second quartile; 50% of data falls below this value; also the median.

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What is Q3?

The third quartile; 75% of data falls below this value.

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What does (1N)/4 calculate?

Determines the class interval in which the first quartile lies.

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Percentile

A measure dividing a distribution into 100 equal parts, indicating the value below which a certain percentage of scores fall.

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L (Percentile Formula)

The lower boundary of the interval containing the percentile you're calculating.

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i (Percentile Formula)

The class size (interval size) used in the frequency distribution.

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kN/100 (Percentile Formula)

A value representing the position of a percentile.

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cfb (Percentile Formula)

Cumulative frequency of the class before the percentile class.

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fm (Percentile Formula)

Frequency of the interval that contains the percentile.

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P15

Finding the value below which 15% of the scores lie.

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P50

Finding the value below which 50% of the scores lie (the median).

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P95

Finding the value below which 95% of the scores lie.

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∑f

The sum of all frequencies in a frequency distribution.

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Study Notes

  • Variability measures the degree to which scores in a distribution are spread out or clustered.

Symbols for Describing Values

  • Population Standard Deviation: σ
  • Population Variance: σ²
  • Population Mean: μ
  • Total Population Observations: N
  • Sample Standard Deviation: s
  • Sample Variance: s²
  • Sample Mean: x̄
  • Total Sample Observations: n

Range

  • The range is the distance from the largest to the smallest score in a distribution.
  • A larger range indicates more spread-out data; a smaller range indicates more clustered data.
  • The range is determined only by the two extreme values, ignoring other scores.
  • Range Calculation: Highest value – Lowest Value

Standard Deviation

  • Standard deviation is useful when the distribution is normal ("bell-shaped") or approximately normal.
  • Standard deviation affects the shape of the "bell curve".
  • Standard deviation uses the mean as a reference point.
  • It describes whether scores are clustered closely around the mean or widely scattered.

Raw Score Method Formula for Standard Deviation

  • SD = √[ΣX² - (ΣX)² / n] / (n-1)

Deviation Score Method Formula for Standard Deviation

  • SD = √[Σ(Χ− X̄)²] / (n-1)

Organized Data Formula for Standard Deviation

  • SD = √[n (fX²) – (ΣfX)²] / [n(n-1)]

Variance

  • Variance is the square of the standard deviation, representing the average squared distance from the mean.

Reporting Standard Deviation

  • Researchers often provide descriptive information for both central tendency and variability.
  • Common descriptive statistics for numerical scores include the mean (central tendency) and standard deviation (variability).

Measures of Position

  • Measures of position describe a data value's position relative to the rest of the data.

Quartiles

  • Quartiles divide ranked data into quarters.
  • Each data set has three quartiles.

Quartile Formula

  • Qi = L + i[(iN / 4) - cfb] / fm
    • L = lower boundary of interval containing the ith quartile
    • i = class size
    • F = frequency of the interval containing the ith quartile
    • N = total number of observations
    • fm = the cumulative frequency of the ith quartile
    • cfb = cumulative frequency of the class before the Qi class

Percentiles

  • Percentiles divide the distribution into 100 equal parts.
  • Percentiles indicates the value on the measurement scale below which a specified percentage of scores fall.

Percentile Formula

  • Pᵢ = L + i[(iN / 100) - cfb] / fm
    • L = lower boundary of interval containing the ith percentile
    • i = class size
    • F = frequency of the interval containing the ith percentile
    • N = total number of observations
    • fm = the cumulative frequency leading up to the interval that contains the ith percentile
    • cfb = cumulative frequency of the class before the Pᵢ class

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Explore variability measures: range and standard deviation. Understand symbols, calculations, and the impact of standard deviation on the shape of the bell curve. Learn how these measures describe the spread and clustering of scores in a distribution.

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