Understanding the concepts better: Grouped Data: The concept of grouped data can be understood using the following

example: The number of runs scored in a 20-20 match by Green Team Players and Blue Team Players

20

26

24

13

26

19

31

16

21

17

11

14

16

21

The above data can be organised into a frequency distribution (or a grouped data) in several ways. One method is to use intervals as a basis. The smallest value in the above data is 6 and the largest is 31. The interval from 6 to 31 is broken up into class intervals. For each class interval, the amount of data items falling in this interval is counted. This number is called the frequency of that class interval. The results are tabulated as a frequency table as follows:

Runs Scored

Frequency

5 and above, below 10

10 and above, below 15

15 and above, below 20

20 and above, below 25

25 and above, below 30

30 and above, below 35

What is the Mean runs scored? In the above example what is the mean of the runs scored by the Blue team and Green team? The mean value is the average runs scored by each team. We find it by adding up all the runs and dividing by the total number of players that batted. batted Green Team Mean = (20+ 26 + 24 + 6 + 13 + 26 +8 + 19 +31) / 9 = 173/9 = 19.22 Blue Team Mean = (16 + 21+ 17 + 11 + 6 + 14 + 16 + 21) / 8 = 122/8 = 15.25 Mean of Grouped data ? . You might also want to know what the mean of runs scored in the Match was. You can use the frequency table we made above to and the following formula to know that,

In this formula, x refers to the mid-point of the class intervals, and f is the class frequency. Note that the mid result of this will be different from the sample mean of the ungrouped data. The mean for the grouped data in the above example, can be calculated as follows:

Class Intervals

Frequency ( f )

Midpoint ( x )

fx

5 and above, below 10

7.5

22.5

10 and above, below 15

12.5

37.5

15 and above, below 20

17.5

70

20 and above, below 25

22.5

90

25 and above, below 30

27.5

55

30 and above, below 35

32.5

32.5

TOTAL

17

307.5

Thus, the mean of the grouped data is

= 307.5/17= 18.08

What is the Median of the runs scored? scored

Now you are interesting in finding the median runs by each team. The median of a data set is the middle number when the set is sorted in numerical order. Green Team has 9 Player who batted in Players the match and Blue Team had 8 players who batted in the match Since there was an odd number of match. a data point for Green, it is easy to pick the median The blue team has an even median. even-numbered data set, so you will take the mean of the middle two numbers numbers.

Green Team

20

26

24

13

26

19

31

Arranged in ascending order:

6, 8, 13, 19, 20 , 24, 26, 26, 31

Green Team Median is 20 runs

Blue Team

16

21

17

11

14

16

21

Arranged in ascending order:

6, 11, 14, 16, 16 , 17, 21, 21

Blue Team Median is (16 + 16)/2 = 16 runs
What is the Mode of the runs scored?
The mode of a data set is the number that appears most frequently.

For the green team it is 26. For the blue team it is 16 and 21. This is said to be bimodal as it as 2 modes. Sometimes we hear sentences like the average height of an Indian is 150 cm average footwear is size 6 In these cases the average indicates the mode and not the mean. It is not necessary that in a series that there should be only one mode. A distribution having one mode is call unimodal, having 2 modes, bimodal (like the Blue team), and more than 2, multimodal.