how can one estimate the mean and variance of data that are summarized in a grouped frequency distribution? why are these only estimates?
Step 1: Determine the mid point (xi ) of each class interval
Step 2: Multiply these mid points (xi ) by the frequencies (fi ) of the corresponding classes
Step 3: The sum of the products divided by the total number of values is the mean of the data.
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where
Variance (s2) of data that are summarized in a grouped frequency distribution is given by:
There are only estimates because these are calculated from sample only. These are estimates of the corresponding population mean () and population variance () respectively.
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