Statistics: Variance of a population | Probability and Statistics | Khan Academy
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He doesn't just go like "okay this is how it is, do this step now for some reason, because that's how it should be", he actually takes the time to explain in-depth.
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4 years of the university went by and today is the day I fully understood variance! Thanks Sal
how were you able to get through university then?
@@joshboston2323 barely did
Your videos are very pedagogic! I've posted this to all the people where I work (I'm the only statistician), so perhaps they can understand what the variance is for once =)
is it sad that I am in my fourth year at the university of toronto and I am using this to help me in stats. shame on my prof.
In in the same predicament right now. Failed stats at San Diego State 4 years ago, don't remember anything, now trying to relearn for my upper level course at FIT
so did you graduate?
shame on you lol, should have put effort earlier
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as i understand it, there are two ways to make something positive; take the absolute value or square it. they chose to square it.
of course, u can just use standard deviation (square rt of the variance) if you want a measure of spread/dispersion that uses the same units as your data pts. :)
At this point, its 3am. I'm kinda sleepy, but not sleepy enough to get off of youtube. I find this so fun to learn that i got my notebook out and started writing this stuff down. Talk about an excellent teacher... :P
Absolute values are not that easy to manipulate 'algebraically'. Squares have been used as acceptable substitute for the 'absolute operator/function' throughout maths and physics.
PS:- If you have to write an absolute function in terms of 'basic' operators, it goes something like this. ABS(x)={x: if x is greater than or equal to zero OR -x: if x is less than zero}. So any further operation you do will have to take these cases. You see why this would get complicated. Hope this helps.
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Hey Sal, typically when the sample mean is calculated, it is the sum of all the values divided by (n-1). The reason we use n-1 rather than n is so that the sample variance will be what is called an unbiased estimator of the population variance.
Thanks for these videos. My stats textbooks are fine, but these are more succinct and comprehensible. My psych degree is a breeze now. Kudos!
@Taha Shah It just looks like 2-1, but his writing is small and hard to read. It's still i=1, not 2-1.
Thank you! And voice is like butter! Can listen forever
You should kindly correct the mistake in the previous video. Or mention in the end, for people who only intended to watch that particular topic. :)
I don't think it's a big mistake to correct they're just variables.
You can name it n, i or even Maryam Niazi.
yeah it's hardly even a mistake
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I thought the same thing lmao
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Anything is manageable if the teacher is good.
Math is infamous for being "boring" and "complicated", but Sal proves over and over again that it's actually very straight-forward and can be very fun - he even manages to include absolute values in first-grade lessons and builds up to matrices and complex numbers as if it were nothing special, lol.
Will you make a covariance video? These are really great. They help more than my books and my professor.
I believe the equation for the sample mean is incorrect. you do not divide by small "n". You divide the sum of the total sample values by "n-1". It is important to divide by "n-1" in a sample mean. That one characteristic differentiates population and sample mean. A sample mean is an estimate of the population mean, and thus the "n-1" helps make the mean a sample of the population mean.
that shit is explained in the next vid
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@josenros
I'm no mathematician, but I think it's because the properties of the sum-of-the-squares function, the sum-of-abs-dif func is non-linear, causing some problems not to have closed formula solution. Actually the formula for sample variance sum((xi-mean)^2)/n can be derived as a maximum likelihood estimation of population var., meaning that the calculated value is "most likely" close to the correct value under the assumption that the numbers xi follow the Gaussian distribution.
Around 7:43: x4 = 3 (you say 4 by accident). Brilliant video, as always, thank you....
Thank you for explaining this to me, I didn't understand at all from lectures and the textbook (yr 2 biologist at uni).
You're right, it is very easy when you follow through the equations, lecturers just show the equations leaving us looking blankly at them.
thankyou. Ihave a question...my teacher told me that you need to subtract that N=4 to 1 in getting the variance part
that's xi - mean/ 4 - 1 to get the variance. ;)
In easy terms, if you just add the difference of each data from the mean you would get zero as the result. Visualise this. Mean would be right in the center of your data points. Right?? If you take the sum of the distances of each point from the mean, because the mean is in the center, you would have as much distance (of the points on the left hand side) as you would have on the Right Hand Side. Hence their sum would come to zero. Hope this helps.
Pretty good tutorial, terrible greek letters. Thank you for this, man. I'm teaching myself math all over, as I never quite got it. You're a great big help.
It has to be squared so as to get a magnitude of the difference and not the sign. You could have taken the modulus but I guess the guys thought that square was just easier to work around with for later results.
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My point is that variance is difficult to visualize in your head. 'VAR2' ( defined in my previous comment) is easier to define, visualize and understand. But its not used because of the associated calculation issues.
PS:- I am not an authority on the subject. Even if I was, questions like these are still being debated. I hope this explanation helps.
same here. and i cannot just mug up formulas man.
And Sal SD explanation is the best ever
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I think that these lectures should be arranged in sequences because, it is easy for someone to lose track of what the next lecture is going to be.
I like this - the clarification is a big help to me.
okay.. I was taught that the denominator of the sample isn't just "n". It's "n-1". The population denominator remains only "n". Am I wrong?
+Priscilla Mosby I was taught the same way! We use "n-1" as the denominator in order to minimize the error.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that!
When you consider the whole population, the denominator is N as in this example
that applies to the variance of the sample not the variance of the population
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Just wow!
i = 1
this refers to the i in x sub i,
this means u start at the data point where x = 1, the first data point
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So you basically say absolute values are more exact but not used since the modification of formulas considering absolute values is much more difficult?
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Is the square on that difference between the values and the average all for the purpose of making them positive values? If so, why is there no operation of doing the square root for them? Because if they’re squared, then that means the value is doubled, right?
Thanks for the video!!
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I got confused after the other video with the introduction of i. Now I dont know what is going on.
It seems more intuitive to me to take the absolute values of (Xi - mean), and then find the average by dividing by n.
Why do we square the difference instead of just looking at the magnitude of the difference?
Thank you so much you save my whole sem of GEC
Ah, I understand. taking the average of the absolute values would give you the absolute deviation. The variance is a squared deviation, by definition. I'm still not so sure why in what cases it would be more useful than the absolute deviation.
Watching this makes me realize how much my professor is flat out terrible, no offense since he's a super cool guy and all. Something that takes him 2 weeks to explain, you are able to convey and teach in 12 minutes. Thank you so much!! :)
Thanks
Can anyone give an intuitive explanation for why we're interested in the average square distance from the mean and not simply the average distance from the mean? I get that it gives you a positive number but we could just as well have used an absolute as stated in the video.
So whats the difference between a variance of a population and the standard deviation of a population?
Anon Ymous Standard deviation is the square root of the variance. Thanks google
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@10bengy try to going to his website, they are in order there.
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variance is using N-1 not just over N...
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I have a question. See if these numbers (2,2,3,3 and 0,0,5,5) were each on separate tetrahedral dice and you rolled them together, which one would have the greatest probability of winning and how would you work that one? Would variance be taken into account?
+Human Person It would be a question of odds calculated using probability. Variance would not be used.
WHY HAVENT TAKEN MODULUS RATHER THAN OF SQUARE ?
this very help full to me..........
i need a formula that has the current population adds the births and subtracts the deaths.
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Can't variance be over-estimated as well, as in case if we took data points to the right? So, in that case, we might need to divide the sum by "n + 1"...??
Wouldn't it make more sense to calculate how much, on an average (mean), every data point diverges from the mean? That way the data points of the set {0, 0, 5, 5} would on average (mean) diverge by 2.5 from the mean which gives you an understanding of how spread of the numbers are. What is the point of squaring? You could just take the abs-value if you want positive numbers.
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These are ten years old. They can be redone better.
@josenros
I'm sure this sounds a little bit confusing, just watch more Sal's videos or look the details up on wikipedia. It'll come together ;-)
This always confuses me. When he writes the Sum symbol and the N ontop of it and all that jazz, what does he put under the sum symbol? In the first vid, he put an i=1 now he's putting a 2-1? pls halp
there is no 2 - 1, only i = 1, it's just blurry
Okay I'm glad cause this was frustrating me so bad. Bad handwriting is my biggest pet peeve
I'm lost. Does anyone know a better channel that caters to statistics for beginners. Please recommend.
Sir where should we do exercise ????
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in case of grouped, ungrouped data etc............and all other data???
Isn’t the sample mean divided by n-1 ?
Shouldn't the square of a difference be determined through a^2-2(a.b)+b^2???
shouldnt there be small n in the formula for deviaition instead of N
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@28kb
He wrote it correctly, it is 3, but he just says it wrong (he said 4)
thanks!! helped me so much!
"exact" would not be the correct word here. Variance is a measure of dispersion of data about the mean. That is that. It gives "a measure" of the average distance data points are from mean, but not the average distance itself. Now we can define another value, say VAR2 that is defined as the mean of distances of data points from the mean. Here the absolute value would be used and . That would be a measure of dispersion as well. 'Perhaps' a better measure.
love your "I don't know"
unnecessary mention....I just 'heard' , x4 =4.good video : ]
Superb video! Thank you so much!! :)
wait why are u dividing by the number of the data? is this variance different from the one and probability?
x of 4 is = to 4 lol :)
nice
Can anybody tell me where to get info or video links for population range ie. 0 and less than 5, 5 and less than 15 and so on using standard deviation, median mode?? thxx