Stddev, Stddev( stddev – Texas Instruments TI-73 EXPLORER User Manual

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Chapter 7: Statistical Analyses

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7307ENG.DOC CH 7, Statistical Analyses, English Julie Hewlett Revised: 07/29/98 12:07 PM Printed: 05/19/99

9:00 AM Page 131 of 22

2. Return to the Home screen,

and calculate the average of

the test scores.

- l :
- v " "

3

- v

TEST

b ¡ - v

FREQ

b E b

stdDev(

stdDev( -

v

"

"

6

6

stdDev(

returns the standard deviation of list. If a second list,

freq, is specified, it is interpreted as the frequency of the

elements in the first list. list and freq must have the same

number of elements.

stdDev(

list,freq[,type]

)

type=

0

(population standard deviation) or

1

(sample

population deviation). If type is not specified, the calculator

returns sample population deviation.

Find the population standard

deviation of

¨

TEST

(from the

previous example). Use

¨

FREQ

as

your freq.

- v " "

6

- v

TEST

b

¡ - v

FREQ

b ¡

0

E b

³

Solution

David's final course

average is 80.25.

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