Find the mean and variance of the frequency distribution given below:
Given the frequency distribution
Now we have to find the mean and variance
Converting the ranges of x to groups, the given table can be rewritten as shown below,
And we know variance can be written as
$\sigma^{2}=\frac{\sum f_{i} x_{i}^{2}}{n}-\left(\frac{\sum f_{i} x_{i}}{n}\right)^{2}$
Substituting values from above table, we get
$\sigma^{2}=\frac{340.25}{16}-\left(\frac{66.5}{16}\right)^{2}$
On simplifying we get
$\sigma^{2}=21.265-(4.16)^{2}$
$\sigma^{2}=21.265-17.305=3.96$
We also know mean can be written as
$\overline{\mathrm{x}}=\frac{\sum \mathrm{f}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}}{\mathrm{n}}$
Substituting values from above table, we get
$\bar{x}=\frac{66.5}{16}=4.16$
Hence the mean and variance of the given frequency distribution is $4.16$ and $3.96$ respectively.