Skip to content


Math Lesson

Today’s exciting math lesson comes to us from the land of I-Forgot-How-To-Do-Standard-Deviation:

Calculating Mean: The Arithmetic Mean is obtained by summing all elements of the data set and dividing by the number of elements.

Calculating Median: The Median is the middle element when the data set is arranged in order of magnitude. If there are an odd number of data elements, the median is a member of the data set. If there are an even number of data elements, the median is computed as the arithmetic mean of the middle two.

<

p>Calculating Standard Deviation: The variance and standard deviation of a data set measures the spread of the data about the mean of the data set.

The variance of a sample of size n represented by s2 is given by:

s2 =
[The sum of (x - mean)2]
(n-1)


The standard deviation can be calculated by taking the square root of the variance.

Posted in General.

0 Responses

Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.

Some HTML is OK

(required)

(required, but never shared)

or, reply to this post via trackback.