Computation of Mean Deviation

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Computation of Mean Deviation: Overview

In this topic, we will study the computation of mean deviation. We will learn the calculation by using various methods. It discusses how to find mean deviation about mean and median along with the construction of tables.

Important Questions on Computation of Mean Deviation

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If x¯ is the mean of n observations x1,x2,,xn then the mean of the absolute deviations of these observations from x¯ is

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The mean deviation from the mean of the discrete data 1,3,4,7,11,18,29,47,78 is

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The mean deviation about the mean for the following data: 5,6,7,8,6,9,13,12,15 is

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If the mean of the data p, 6,6,7,8,11,15,16, is 3 times p, then the mean deviation of the data from its mean is

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What will be the probable value of mean deviation when Q3=40 and Q1=15?

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Sum of the squares of deviations is minimum when deviations are taken from

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Number of students who visited Physics coaching are 13, 17, 11, 15 in four days then find the variance for the given data

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If ui=xi-3510, fiui=30, fi=60, then what is the value of assumed mean?

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If ui=xi-2510, fiui=20, fi=100, then what is the value of assumed mean?

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The runs scored by Virat in 7 different matches are given as:

19, 91, 04, 36,13, 47, 56

Calculate the mean deviation about the median for this data.

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In a competition the number of mangoes eaten by six contestants in an hour is as follows:

12, 18, 21, 26, 17, 20

Find the mean deviation about the mean for the given data (correct to two decimal places).

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Find the mean deviation(in decimal) about the mean for the following data:

6,8, 4, 13, 9, 5, 16, 19.

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The mean deviation of the data 3, 10, 10, 4, 7, 10, 5 is:

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If the weekly wages of 5000 workers in a factory follows normal distribution with mean and SD as  700 and  50 respectively, what is the expected number of workers with wages between  660 and  720?

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The average weekly food expenditure of a group of families has a normal distribution with mean  1,800 and standard deviation  300. What is the probability that out of 5 families belonging to this group, at least one family has weekly food expenditure in excess of  2,100 ? Given ϕ(1)=0.84.

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"Mean has the least sampling variability" prove the mathematical property of mean

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The correction factor is applied in

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For the observations 6, 4, 1, 6, 5, 10, 4, 8 Range is

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The probability distribution of a random variable is as follows:

x:12468P:k2k3k3kk

The variance of x is

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For finding A.M in Step-deviation method, the class intervals should be of