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One of the procedures which may be executed in your OpenStat package is the Analyses/Statistics/Central Tendency and Variability procedure. The procedure will compute the mean, variance, standard deviation, range, skew, minimum, maximum and number of cases for each variable you have specified. To use it, you enter your data as a column of numbers in the data grid or retrieve the data of a file into the data grid. Click on the Statistics option in the main menu and click on the Mean, Variance, Std.Dev, Skew, Kurtosis option under the Descriptive sub-menu. You will see the following form (Fig. 5.1):
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Miller, W. (2013). Distributions. In: OpenStat Reference Manual. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5740-4_5
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