(Collection of Data)
GSA 1072
Ting Hua Jian
Frequency
distributio
n
Collection of
Data
Ungrouped
data
Grouped
data
Frequency distribution
What is
frequency?
Example 1 : Goals
Sam's team has scored the following numbers of goals in
recent games:
2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 2, 2, 3
Example 2 : Newspapers
These are the numbers of newspapers sold at a local shop
over the last 10 days:
Newspapers
Sold
Frequency
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Papers
Sold
Frequency
15-19
20-24
25-29
7
1
Grouped data
Mean
Median
Mode is the
value that have
highest
frequency
Mean is the
data of an
average value
Median is the
middle of a sorted
list of numbers.
Score
51-55
56-60
61-65
66-70
Frequency
2
7
8
4
The groups (51-55, 56-60, etc), also called class intervals, are of
width 5
The midpoints are in the middle of each class: 53, 58, 63 and 68
Midpoint
Frequency
53
58
63
68
Midpoint
x
Frequency
f
Midpoint
Frequency
fx
53
106
58
406
63
504
68
272
Totals:
21
1288
Estimate
d Mean=
1288
21
=61.333.
..
Frequency
Total frequency
51 - 55
56 - 60
61 - 65
17
66 - 70
21
Median
class/group
The median is the middle value, which in our case is the 11th
one, which is in the 61 - 65 group:
We can say "the median group is 61 - 65"
m = median
L = Lower boundary of median class
N = Number of data
F = Total frequency before median class
fm = frequency in median class
c = Class size = (Upper boundary lower boundary)
Upper
boundary is
55 or 60,
and lower
boundary is
50 or 55,
And we get
5.
Solution,
L = 60.5
n = 21
F=9
Fm = 8
c=5
Mean
Ungrouped data
Median
Example :
. Find the mean for the set of data 3, 7, 5, 13, and 2.
Solution,
Mean =
37+5+
13 -2
5
12
5
= 2.4
3, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 21, 23, 23, 23, 23, 29, 40, 56
Solution,
21 + 23 = 44
then 44 2 = 22
So the Median in this example is 22.