Measures of Spread

In the past lessons, we studied measures of center (mean, median, mode). Another important feature that can help us understand more about a data set is the manner in which the data are distributed, or spread. Variation and dispersion are words that are also commonly used to describe this feature. There are several commonly used statistical measures of spread that we will investigate in this lesson book.



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