{"id":1577,"date":"2020-04-30T22:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:01:16","slug":"using-scientific-calculator-to-calculate-mean-and-standard-deviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/using-scientific-calculator-to-calculate-mean-and-standard-deviation\/","title":{"rendered":"using scientific calculator to calculate mean, and standard deviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have the scientific calculator fx-570MS, you can use it to easily\u00a0 calculate mean and standard deviation of a given set of data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/758\/2020\/04\/calculator-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1592\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/758\/2020\/04\/calculator-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/758\/2020\/04\/calculator-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/758\/2020\/04\/calculator-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/758\/2020\/04\/calculator-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you have a sample with the given set of data such as:<\/p>\n<p>60, 70, 85, 52, 93, 58 , 71 (n=7)<\/p>\n<p>and you want find the mean and standard deviation.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you need to do is to<\/p>\n<p>clear all data: shift, mode, 3 (All) =<\/p>\n<p>and set mode to statistics: mode, mode, 1 (SD)<\/p>\n<p>then you can begin to key in the data:<\/p>\n<p>just type the number and press m+ which mean add memory<\/p>\n<p>60 m+, after you press m+, then n=1 will appear on the screen. this means that the sample number you have added into your calculator is 1, and 60 is your first sample.<\/p>\n<p>continue adding all the data in your calculator:<\/p>\n<p>70\u00a0 m+<\/p>\n<p>85\u00a0 m+<\/p>\n<p>52 m+<\/p>\n<p>93 m+<\/p>\n<p>58 m+<\/p>\n<p>71 m+<\/p>\n<p>at the end , your n should be n=7<\/p>\n<p>Then, to find your mean just press<\/p>\n<p>shift 2 (s-var), 1 (x bar), =<\/p>\n<p>and the mean is 69.86<\/p>\n<p>to find the standard deviation, just press<\/p>\n<p>shift, 2 (s-var), 2 (xsigman), = 13.746 if your data is considered to be population<\/p>\n<p>shift, 2 (s-var), 3 (x sigma n-1), =14.84\u00a0 if you data is a sample.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, you need to be aware about the data set that you have, whether it is a sample or population. (In this case, you need to find the standard deviation for a sample, so you should select 3 (x sigma n-1) ).<\/p>\n<p>so, here it is, simple right!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have the scientific calculator fx-570MS, you can use it to easily\u00a0 calculate mean and standard deviation of a given set of data. Let&#8217;s say you have a sample with the given set of data such as: 60, 70, 85, 52, 93, 58 , 71 (n=7) and you want find the mean and standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses-attended","category-teaching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/norulhuda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}