Abstract
Finding a central measure for your data set is not the end of the story; you also need to gauge whether the values are mostly bunched together, or are widely dispersed. For this you need a measure of spread (also known as a measure of dispersion). To help you, the approach to the topic is mapped out by Fig. 9.1.
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Boyle, C. (1986). Spread Values. In: Mastering Statistics with your Microcomputer. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18211-4_9
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