
By Howard T Tokunaga
This chapter introduces measures of variability, which are designed to represent the amount of differences in a distribution of data. In this chapter, we will present and evaluate different measures of variability in terms of their relative strengths and weaknesses”
This chapter features in Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioural Sciences, which places statistics within the research process, illustrating how statistics are used to answer questions and test ideas.
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