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Measures of Variability

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Chapter 3 describes the use of SPSS to obtain measures of location for a data set. Another important characteristic of data is variability. Measures of variability tell how spread out the observations are, that is, how much the values differ from individual to individual.

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Voelkl, K.E., Gerber, S.B. (1999). Measures of Variability. In: Using SPSS for Windows. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3090-6_4

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