UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS

LIST OF STATISTICAL FORMULAE

Note: The provision of these formulae does not necessarily imply that they are
required in answering the questions.

Arithmetic Mean and Standard Deviation

 fx  fx   fx 
2 2

x = σ=  
f f  f 
 

Q 3  Q1
Quartile Deviation =
2

Skewness

Coefficient of Skewness
Bowley’s Pearson’s

Q 3  Q1  2Med 3(Mean  Median )

Standard Deviation
Q 3  Q1

Correlation and Regression

Product Moment Correlation coefficient

n
 n  n 
n  X i Yi    X i   Yi 
i 1  i 1  i 1 
r=
 n 2  n   n 2  n  
2 2

n  X i    X i  n  Yi    Yi  
 i 1  i 1   i 1  i 1  

Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient

6 d 2
R= 1 -
n ( n 2  1)

Estimated Regression of y on x : ŷ = a + bx

n
 n  n 
n  X i Yi    X i   Yi 
i 1  i 1  i 1 
b= 2 ; a= Y - b X
n
 n 
n X    X i 
2
i
i 1  i 1 