Shortcut method to find variance and standard deviation - class-XII
Description: shortcut method to find variance and standard deviation | |
Number of Questions: 76 | |
Created by: Naresh Verma | |
Tags: measures of dispersion and skewness maths business economics and quantitative methods economics basic statistics for economics statistics and probability statistics |
Standard deviation is calculated from the Harmonic Mean (HM).
Lowest value of variance can be:
What is the standard deviation of $7,9,11,13,15$?
__________ is the positive square root of the mean of squared deviations from mean.
Which of the following are Methods of calculating Standard Deviation?
Which of the following is true?
Which of the following represents median?
If the A.M of a set of observations is $9$ and its G.M is $6$. Then the H.M of the set of observations is ____.
To find the median, it is necessary to arrange the data in _______.
Calculate standard deviation of the following data.
X | $0-10$ | $10-20$ | $20-30$ | $30-40$ | $40-50$ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
f | $10$ | $8$ | $15$ | $8$ | $4$ |
The standard deviation of $10, 16, 10, 16, 10, 10, 16, 16$ is?
Calculate standard deviation of the following data.
X | $10$ | $11$ | $12$ | $13$ | $14$ | $15$ | $16$ | $17$ | $18$ |
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f | $2$ | $7$ | $10$ | $12$ | $15$ | $11$ | $10$ | $6$ | $3$ |
Find the mean and standard deviation of the following observations: X $=2, 5, 7, 8, 13$.
Find the present value of Rs. $10,000$ to be required after $5$ years if the interest rate be $9\%$. Given that $(1.09)^5=1.5386$.
If the standard deviation of the numbers $2,3,a$ and $11$ is $3.5,$ then which of the following is true?
The two observations $A$ & $B$ are given by $100, 101, ........149$ and $200, 201, .......,249$ with $V _{A}$ and $V _{B}$ are variances of $A$ and $B$ than $V _{A}$ is equal to :
In expected rate of return for constant growth, dividends are expected to grow but with the _____________.
If the standard deviation of the values $2,4,6,8$ is $2.33$, then the standard deviation of the values $4,6,8,10$ is
The sum of squared deviations of a set of $n$ values from their mean is
If $y=-8x-5$ and SD of $x$ is $3$, then SD of $y$ is:
Suppose for $40$ observations, the variance is $50$. If all the observations are increased by $20$, the variance of these increased observation will be
The variance of $5$ numbers is $10$. If each number is divided by $2$, then the variance of new numbers is
Find $Var(2X+3)$
If a, b are constants then, $Var(a+bX)$ is
If the standard deviation of a population is $9$, the population variance is:
If $X, Y $ are independent then $SD(X-Y)$ is:
The variance of $20$ observations is $5$. If each observation is multiplied by $2$, then what is the new variance of the resulting observations?
The formula Of $X^2$ distribution is______________.
For a large sample, the sampling distribution of $X^2$ may form________.
${X}^2$ test is equal to____________.
T-distribution is symmetrical like normal distribution and its mean value is____________.
A simple formula to calculate the standard error is___________.
The value of $X^2$ describes the magnitude of the difference between___________.
If the size of the sample increases, the curve becomes___________.
b)The variance of t distribution and the variance of normal distribution become closer and closer as the size of the sample increases.
If the sample size is small, the curve may be__________.
If the standard deviation is small, we define a new variable known as ________.
The coefficient correlation between x and y is 0.8, the covariance being 20. If the standard deviation of x is 4 find the standard deviation of y___.
If Mean deviation is 16 then the standard deviation of the data is____.
The standard deviation of a frequency distribution is 3.24 find the variance:
What will be the relative range, if the spread of items in a given distribution lies between $100$ and $180$kg?
An index is at 100 in 1991. It rises 5% in 1992, falls 6% in 1993,falls 5% in 1994, rises 4% in 1995 and 7% in 1996.The index numbers for all these years with 1991 as base are _______.
The standard deviation of $5$ items is found to be $15$. What will be the standard deviation if the values of all the items are increased by $5$?
The mean of $100$ observations is $18.4$ and sum of sqares of deviations from mean is $1444$, the Co-efficient of variation is ______.
The first quartile of the following observations is
$10, 19, 22, 16, 15, 18, 20, 18, 14, 18, 23$.
The following distribution of ages (in complete years) is obtained for the students of higher secondary.
The mode of the distribution is.
Age (in years) | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of students | 12 | 18 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 |
The median for the following distribution is
X | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Y | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
The mean of $25$ observations is $73.408$. If one observation $64$ is removed, the revised mean is ______.
The correct relation between variance and standard deviation (S.D) of a variable X is _______.
For comparison of two different series, the best measure of dispersion is _________.
Given mean = $70.2$ and mode = $70.5$, find median using empirical relationship among them.
Which measure of dispersion ensures highest degree of reliability?
If each observation of set is divided by $10$, the S.D of the new observations is ______.
Which measure of dispersion has a different unit other than the unit of measurement of values?
A set of values is said to be relatively uniform if it has ________.
If each value of a set is divided by a constant 'd', the co-efficient of variation will be ________.
The C.V of a distribution is $80\%$ and the mean of the distribution is $40$, the S.D of the distribution is ________.
If each value of a series is multiplied by a constant, the coefficient of variation as compared to original value is _______.
The standard deviation of $5$ items is found to be $15$. What will be the standard deviation if the values of all the items are increased?
The mean of $100$ observations is $18.4$ and sum of squares of deviations from mean is $1444$, the Co-efficient of variation is _______.
If A and B are two events which have no point in common, the events A and B are ______.
Which of the following statements is true of a measure of dispersion?
The relation between variance and standard deviation is ________.
Frequency distribution is __________________.
Probability can take values from ______.
A student obtained the mean and the standard deviation of 100 observations as 40 and 5.1. It was later found that one observation was wrongly copied as 50, the correct figure being 40. Find the correct mean and the S. D.
If the coefficient of correlation between $x,y$ is $0.7$ and covariance is $35$ find the standard deviation of $y$ if the standard deviation of $x$ is $5$____.
The standard deviation of sample of 30 observations is 1532. If the value of each item of the observation is increased by 5. The new standard deviation will be ______.
From the following data calculate the coefficient of concurrent deviation:
Number of pairs of observations=94
Number of pairs of concurrent deviation=34
If the coefficient of correlation between x,y is 0.8 and covariance is 32 find the standard deviation of X if the standard deviation of y is 4___.
For a distribution, coefficient of variation is 22.5% and mean is 7.5 find the standard deviation___.
In a class of 100, the mean on a certain exam was 50, the standard deviation, 0. This means..........................
Average Marks of a group of $50$ students appeared in CA CPT exams is $134$ marks. If $10\%$ students scored more than $137$ marks, find the standard deviation of marks_____.
If a population has a standard deviation of $2.25$, how large the sample should be to allow a maximum error of $0.33$ with $95\%$ confidence level?
The standard deviation $\sigma$ of the first $N$ natural numbers can be obtained using which one of the following formula?
A researcher has collected the following sample data. The mean of the sample is 5.
3 5 12 3 2
The standard deviation is...............