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An example to calculate mean and standard deviation for a frequency distribution table
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import numpy as np | |
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
# directly listing all the midpoints of the interval using np.linspace | |
midpoints = np.linspace(5, 95, 10) | |
# frequency of each interval | |
freq = np.array([0, 5, 315, 1606, 3105, 2935, 1500, 324, 21, 0]) | |
# elementwise product to get midpoint*frequency | |
midpt_freq = midpoints*freq | |
# mean of the frequency distribution | |
mean = np.sum(midpt_freq)/np.sum(freq) | |
# variance of the frequency distribution | |
var = np.sum(freq*(midpoints-mean)**2)/np.sum(freq) | |
# std deviation is the square root of variance | |
std = np.sqrt(var) | |
print("Mean", mean, "Standard deviation", std) |
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