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1996 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Measures of Variability

verfasst von : T. W. Anderson, Jeremy D. Finn

Erschienen in: The New Statistical Analysis of Data

Verlag: Springer New York

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Although for some purposes an average may be a sufficient description of a set of data, usually more information about the data is needed. An important feature of statistical data is their variability—how much the measurements differ from individual to individual. In this chapter we discuss the numerical evaluation of variability. A synonym for variability is dispersion, and other terms are sometimes used for the same concept including “spread” or “scatter.”

Metadaten
Titel
Measures of Variability
verfasst von
T. W. Anderson
Jeremy D. Finn
Copyright-Jahr
1996
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4000-6_4