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Statistics is a method of analysing data and converting the row data into a more understandable form. Statistics is used to compute or manipulate numerical data. Generally, statistics is used to compute, manipulate and organise the set of numerical data. If we have large numerical data, then statistics is the best mathematical method to summarize the data in the most representative manner. Statistics is one of the branches of applied mathematics. Statistics is used in many areas, like weather forecasting, where raw numerical data is converted into useful presentable data, and similarly in psychology, geology, sociology, and probability. The real-life application of statistics is in business decision making and sports analytics, where they compare data of different or the same sports persons.
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These notes contain all the topics, subtopics, formulae, and important key points of statistics. These notes cover the basic definition of statistics, what is class interval, frequency, mean, mode and median, types of data and their related subtopics. CBSE Class 10 chapter Statistics also includes the cumulative frequency and formulae. Students must practice all the topics of statistics and their examples from the NCERT Exemplar Solutions for Class 10 Maths Chapter 13 Statistics. Students must practice questions and check their solutions using the NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Maths Chapter 13 Statistics.
Statistics: Statistics is the branch of applied mathematics that is concerned with analysing, organizing and presenting data more presentable and useful form.
There are two types of data:
1. Ungrouped Data: When data is unorganized or in the form of row data, or an observation is not classified into any group, it is called ungrouped data.
Example: The marks of the students of class 3rd out of 50.
23, 34, 43, 43, 23, 12, 10, 10, 10, 23, 45, 47, 49, 50
This type of ungrouped data is easy to work with, only when the size of the dataset is small.
2. Grouped Data: In grouped data, data are organized organized or in other words, observations are classified.
Example: The ages of different people in a city X are shown in tabulated form.
Age Interval | No. of People |
0 - 20 | 12 |
20 - 40 | 8 |
40 - 60 | 24 |
60 - 80 | 18 |
Here, the number of people in city X is organized in different age intervals. When the large data set is in the grouped form, it is easy to work.
The number of times a particular observation appears in the data is known as the frequency.
Data is divided into groups of classes according to the range in a way that all observations belong to that class, and this is called a class interval, and the class width is equal for all datasets.
Class width = Upper class limit - Lower class limit
Mean is a method of determining the average of a given set of data.
Mean of Grouped Data When Class Interval Not Given:
When grouped data is given but class intervals are not given the the mean will be:
Where,
Example: The ages of the people of country X are given in tabular form. Find the mean age of the people of city X.
Ages | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 22 | 32 | 56 | 78 | 98 |
No. of Person | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5 |
In the table, age is called
Ages | Numper of Persons | |
3 | 1 | 3 |
5 | 2 | 10 |
8 | 5 | 40 |
10 | 1 | 10 |
16 | 7 | 112 |
22 | 3 | 66 |
32 | 8 | 256 |
56 | 2 | 112 |
78 | 7 | 546 |
98 | 5 | 490 |
Total |
There are three different methods to determine the mean of group data, and these methods are as follows:
1. Direct Method: In this method, convert the data into class intervals and determine the class width for each class interval and tabulate the multiplication of the class width and intervals and apply the formula of mean.
Example: The ages of the people of country X are given in tabular form. Find the mean age of the people of city X.
Ages | 10 - 20 | 20 - 30 | 30 - 40 | 40 - 50 | 50 - 60 | 60 - 70 | 70 - 80 | 80 - 90 | 90 - 100 |
No. of Person | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 7 |
Class width = Upper class limit - Lower class limit
Ages | Numper of Persons | Class Mark | |
10 - 20 | 1 | 15 | 15 |
20 - 30 | 1 | 25 | 25 |
30 - 40 | 5 | 35 | 175 |
40 - 50 | 1 | 45 | 45 |
50 - 60 | 7 | 55 | 385 |
60 - 70 | 3 | 65 | 195 |
70 - 80 | 8 | 75 | 600 |
80 - 90 | 2 | 85 | 170 |
90 - 100 | 7 | 95 | 665 |
Total |
2. Assumed Mean Method: In this method, convert the data into class intervals and determine the class width for each class interval and determine the deviation and tabulate the multiplication of the class width and deviation and apply the formula of mean.
Where a is the middle term in
Ages | Numper of Persons | Class Mark | ||
10 - 20 | 1 | 15 | -30 | -30 |
20 - 30 | 1 | 25 | -20 | -20 |
30 - 40 | 5 | 35 | -10 | -50 |
40 - 50 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
50 - 60 | 7 | 55 | 10 | 70 |
60 - 70 | 3 | 65 | 20 | 60 |
70 - 80 | 8 | 75 | 30 | 240 |
80 - 90 | 2 | 85 | 40 | 80 |
90 - 100 | 7 | 95 | 50 | 350 |
Total |
3. Step-deviation Method: As in the above example, one more step deviation method has been added in the column to find the mean, and this is as follows,
Where,
a = The assumed mean
h = Class size or width
Ages | Numper of Persons | Class Mark | |||
10 - 20 | 1 | 15 | -30 | -3 | -3 |
20 - 30 | 1 | 25 | -20 | -2 | -2 |
30 - 40 | 5 | 35 | -10 | -1 | -5 |
40 - 50 | 1 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50 - 60 | 7 | 55 | 10 | 1 | 7 |
60 - 70 | 3 | 65 | 20 | 2 | 6 |
70 - 80 | 8 | 75 | 30 | 3 | 24 |
80 - 90 | 2 | 85 | 40 | 4 | 8 |
90 - 100 | 7 | 95 | 50 | 5 | 35 |
Total |
Median is a method of finding the middle value for a given set of numbers. The data must be sorted in any order to determine the median of the provided dataset.
There are three steps to determine the medium of the grouped data when no class intervals are given:
1. The first step is to arrange the data in either ascending or descending order.
2. Determine the cumulative frequency.
3. If the number of observations in the given data set is even, then the median can be calculated as,
Median =
Where, n = Number of observations
Example: Determine the median for the given data set.
2, 3, 1, 6, 9, 5, 8, 4
After arranging the data in ascending order, we get:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
Median =
n = 8
Now, putting the values in the formulas,
Median =
Median =
4th term = 4 and 5th term = 5
Median =
Median = 4.5
4. If the number of observations in the given dataset is odd, the median can be calculated as,
Median = (
Where, n = Number of observations
Example: Determine the median for the given data set.
2, 3, 1, 6, 9, 5, 8
After arranging the data in ascending order, we get:
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Here, n = 7
Median = (
After putting in the values, we get,
Median = (
Median =
Therefore, median = 5
The sum of the frequency up to a particular class interval is called the cumulative frequency.
When the number of observations is less than or equal to the particular observation, then it is called the cumulative frequency of the less than type.
When the number of observations is greater than or equal to the particular observation, then it is called the cumulative frequency distribution of the more than type.
This is the frequency or cumulative distribution graph of a series. It shows data values on the horizontal plane axis, and the percent frequencies on the vertical axis.
Example: In the table weights of 50 boys of class X are given. Find the median weight of the class.
Weight (in kg) | Number of boys |
10 - 20 | 5 |
20 - 30 | 6 |
30 - 40 | 5 |
40 - 50 | 3 |
50 - 60 | 7 |
60 - 70 | 3 |
70 - 80 | 8 |
80 - 90 | 6 |
90 - 100 | 7 |
The cumulative frequency is added in the table as shown below:
Weight (in kg) | Number of boys (Frequency) | Cumulative Frequency |
10 - 20 | 5 | 5 |
20 - 30 | 6 | 5 + 6 = 11 |
30 - 40 | 5 | 11 + 5 = 16 |
40 - 50 | 3 | 16 + 3 = 19 |
50 - 60 | 7 | 19 + 7 = 26 |
60 - 70 | 3 | 26 = 3 = 29 |
70 - 80 | 8 | 29 + 8 = 37 |
80 - 90 | 6 | 37 + 6 = 43 |
90 - 100 | 7 | 43 + 7 = 50 |
The Ogive (Cumulative frequency) graph is shown below:
Median of Grouped Data with Class Intervals:
The following steps are used to determine the median of grouped data sets.
1. Determine the cumulative frequency.
2. Apply the formula as:
Where,
Example: In the table weights of 50 boys of class X are given. Find the median weight of the class.
Weight (in kg) | Number of boys |
10 - 20 | 5 |
20 - 30 | 6 |
30 - 40 | 5 |
40 - 50 | 3 |
50 - 60 | 7 |
60 - 70 | 3 |
70 - 80 | 8 |
80 - 90 | 6 |
90 - 100 | 7 |
The cumulative frequency is added in the table as shown below:
Weight (in kg) | Number of boys (Frequency) | Cumulative Frequency |
10 - 20 | 5 | 5 |
20 - 30 | 6 | 5 + 6 = 11 |
30 - 40 | 5 | 11 + 5 = 16 |
40 - 50 | 3 | 16 + 3 = 19 |
50 - 60 | 7 | 19 + 7 = 26 |
60 - 70 | 3 | 26 = 3 = 29 |
70 - 80 | 8 | 29 + 8 = 37 |
80 - 90 | 6 | 37 + 6 = 43 |
90 - 100 | 7 | 43 + 7 = 50 |
Here, n = 50
And,
Therefore, the observation lies between the class intervals of 50 - 60, and this is called the median class.
Lower class limit (l) = 50
h = 10
Frequency (f) = 3
Cumulative frequency of the class preceding the median class (cf) = 19
After putting in the values, we get:
The value that has the highest frequency in the given data set is called the mode.
The mode for grouped data with class intervals can be defined as
Mode =
Where,
l = Lower limit of the modal class
h = Class size
f1 = Frequency of the modal class
f0 = Frequency of the class preceding the modal class
f2 = Frequency of the class succeeding the modal class
Example: In the table weights of 50 boys of class X are given. Find the mode of the given data.
Weight (in kg) | Number of boys |
10 - 20 | 5 |
20 - 30 | 6 |
30 - 40 | 5 |
40 - 50 | 3 |
50 - 60 | 7 |
60 - 70 | 3 |
70 - 80 | 8 |
80 - 90 | 6 |
90 - 100 | 7 |
Mode =
In the table, the maximum class frequency is 8, and the class interval is 70 - 80.
Therefore, the model class = 70 - 80
Lower limit of the modal class (l) = 70
Class size (h) = 10
Frequency of the modal class (f1) = 8
Frequency of the class preceding the modal class (f0) = 3
Frequency of the class succeeding the modal class (f2) = 6
After putting in the values, we get:
Mode =
Mode =
Mode =
Mode =
i) The mean considers all the observations and its value lies between the extreme values. It is used to compare distributions.
ii) In a condition where all the observations are arranged in a particular form or sorted in an order where a particular observation is not important, then in this case median is required. Median does not emphasise only extreme values.
iii) If we require most most frequent values, then the mode is required. The relation between them is as follows,
3 Median = Mode + 2 Mean
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Important topics in statistics are mean, mode, median, on grouped and ungrouped data, frequency, class intervals, and cumulative frequency.
To find the mean, mode and median, calculate the midpoint of each class interval, find the cumulative frequency, and then use formulas to determine the mean, mode and median.
The formula for mean is
The formula to calculate the mode is,
Mode =
Where,
l = Lower limit of the modal class
h = Class size
f1 = Frequency of the modal class
f0 = Frequency of the class preceding the modal class
f2 = Frequency of the class succeeding the modal class
Step-deviation method is generally used in large data sets. It simplifies calculation by using a common factor to reduce the deviations from an assumed mean and the formula is:
Where,
a = The assumed mean
h = Class size or width
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