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In the previous topic you explored important numerical measures of the center of a distribution. In this topic you will investigate similar numerical measures of a distribution’s variability. These measures will also lead you to dis¬cover another visual display (the boxplot) and a very important technique (standardization) which will appear throughout the text.
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Rossman, A.J., Chance, B.L. (1998). Measures of Spread. In: Workshop Statistics. The Workshop Mathematics Project. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2926-9_5
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