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1) Descriptive statistics
2) Inferential statistics.
From a GMAT perspective, our focus would be on some of the measures of descriptive statistics.
Descriptive statistics
Descriptive statistics is a summary of certain data, whose purpose is to give an overview.
The most commonly used example of this is the average, like the average marks obtained by a
student in math in a period of 3 years.
Categories of Descriptive statistics
Measures of Central tendency refer to a value that is usually the centre point of a data set.
Measures of Dispersion refer to how far the values in a data set have deviated from the mean value.
When a data set has an odd number of elements, we choose the middle value.
When the data set has an even number of elements, the average or the mean of the two middle
values becomes the median.
Note:When a set is evenly distributed, which means the difference between consecutive elements of
the set is equal, the median and mean of the set are equal.
1) 3, 4, 7, 3, 1, 2, 3, 9, 13
3) 6, 7, 36, 2, 1, 41
(2+6+9+13+x)/5 = 9
30+x = 5*9
X = 45-30 = 15.
For finding Median, arranging the numbers in an order,
{5,9,11,15,22,38}
Range
This is probably the simplest measure of dispersion. It is obtained by calculating the difference
between the highest and the least values of a set.
The range of the data set {3, 4, 10, 14, 8} is 14-3 = 11.
Standard deviation
The Standard deviation of a set is calculated in five steps.
Solution:
Each value in the set Difference of each value and mean Square of the difference
3 12-3 = 9 81
4 12-4 = 8 64
8 12-8 = 4 16
10 12-10 = 2 4