Statistics - Geometric Mean of Continous Series


When data is given based on ranges alongwith their frequencies. Following is an example of continous series:

Items0-55-1010-2020-3030-40
Frequency251312

In case of continous series, a mid point is computed as $\frac{lower-limit + upper-limit}{2}$ and Geometric Mean is computed using following formula.

Formula

$G.M. = Antilog\ \frac{\sum f \times \log x}{N} \\[7pt] \, = Antilog\ \frac{f_{1} \log x_{1} + f_{2} \log x_{2} + .... + f_{n} \log x_{n}}{N}$

Where −

  • ${G.M.}$ = Geometric Mean

  • ${x_1,x_2,x_3,...,x_n}$ = Different values of mid points in ranges.

  • ${f_1,f_2,f_3,...,f_n}$ = Corresponding frequencies.

  • ${N = \sum f}$

Example

Problem Statement:

A record of dividend declared (in percentage) in the past four years by 20 companies is as follows:

Dividend declared
(in %age)
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No. of companies5834

What is the average percentage of dividend declared by the companies?

Solution:

The average percentage of dividend declared will he calculated by using Geometric Mean.

Dividend declared
(in %age)
Mid-pt
m
Frequency
f
${log x}$${log x} \times m$
0-10550.69903.4950
10-201581.17619.4088
20-302531.39794.1937
30-403541.54416.1764
  20 23.2739

Based on the above mentioned formula, Geometric Mean $G.M.$ will be:

$G.M. = Antilog\ \frac{\sum f \times \log x}{N} \\[7pt] \, = Antilog\ of\ \frac{23.2739}{20} \\[7pt] \, = Antilog\ of\ 1.1637 \\[7pt] \, = 14.58$

The average percentage of Geometric Mean declared by the companies is 14.58.

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