Statistics - Definition and Scope
Statistics - Definition and Scope
1. Introduction
2. Sample and Population
3. Data Analysis : Classifications and Tabulations
4. Graphical representation and its interpretations
Equal Meaning
Political State
Geographical Economical
management Management
Ical
(Management)
There is associate
with 3-types of
managements
Definition : Data
The data is collection of facts or relevant information‘s.
Classification
Quantitative
When the basis of classification according to differences in quantity means
is made according to a numerical size is called quantitative data.
For example : 1. A class of students split up into groups according to their
heights or ages.
Geographical
The classification according to geographical location or place is called
geographical classification of data.
For example : 1. The production of wheat (in quintals) in different states.
Data with
Variable frequency
Data distributed
in classes with
frequency
After the data have been collected and classified , it is essential to put
them in the form of tables with rows and columns.
Town B
Town A
M F Total M F Total
Coffee drinkers 40 5 45 25 15 40
Non-Coffee
drinkers 20 35 55 30 30 60
a) Pictograms :
In this representation method the ungrouped data in
which represent the frequency by horizontal line and
square.
Ex – 3 : The number of television sets repaired in a workshop
by a technician is six, one month period is as shown below.
Present these data as a pictogram.
Month Number repaired
January 11
February 06
March 15
April 09
May 13
June 08
b) Bar Charts :
Bar Charts is a representation of a numbers using bars of
uniform width and length of bars depends upon frequency
and scale you have chosen.
Horizontal Vertical
Bar charts Bar charts
The data represent by equally The data represent by equally
spaced in horizontal rectangles spaced in vertical rectangles
Rectangles parallel to X -axis Rectangles parallel to Y – axis
R
Distance Travelled in Km
by a sales man
Q
Perio
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
d(X)
No.
Of
34 17 9 5 27 13 6
issues
(Y)
M.Co
m
30%
(a) Histogram
(b) Frequency Polygon
(c) Ogive
1-2 5 1 (5/1)*1 =5
2-3 3 1 (3/1)*1 = 3
3-5 6 2 (6/2)*1=3
5-7 12 2 (12/2)*1=6
7-10 9 3 (9/3)*1=3
10-15 10 5 (10/5)*1 =2
15-17 4 2 (4/2)*1 =2
Solution : 9
Frequency Polygon
16
14
12
10
Frequency
8
6
4
2
0
7.2 7.5 7.8 8.1 8.4 8.7 9
Class Mid-Point
By Tushar Bhatt, Assistant Professor in Mathematics, 06/04/20 40
Atmiya University, Rajkot. 20
Graphical Representations of Continuous data
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Cumulative Frequency
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Ogive
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