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Ch 5·§5.3 Range and standard deviation
5.3

5.3 Range and standard deviation

Where the measures of center ask “where,” the measures of spread ask “how wide.” The range is max minus min; the standard deviation is the typical distance from the mean. Together with center, they describe almost any data set.

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