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In the previous chapter we considered the statistical parameters which could be used as a measure of the centre of a distribution, the most important being the mean. In this chapter are discussed some parameters which can be used as a measure of the spread of a distribution. These are the variance, the mean deviation and the range. Of these the most important is the variance.
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Mulholland, H., Jones, C.R. (1968). Measures of Dispersion. In: Fundamentals of Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6507-3_6
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