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To get an overall picture of a distribution and not just a single data value, we can use the measures of dispersion.
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Measures of dispersion are used to characterize the spread or scatter of values in a distribution. The more spread out the distribution is, the higher the value of the measure of dispersion.
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Standard Deviation
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No matter the measure of dispersion calculated, if the value gets increasingly large, then the data set becomes more and more dispersed.
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Sampling Methods
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Measures of Central Tendency
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Measures of Position
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