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Record 1 2010-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
CONT

Measures of dispersion express quantitatively the degree of variation of dispersion of values in population or in a sample. Along with measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion are widely used in practice as descriptive statistics. Some measures of dispersion are the standard deviation, the average deviation, the range, the interquartile range.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
DEF

Pour une série d'observations statistiques, indication ou indice établi pour exprimer leur éloignement les unes des autres.

OBS

Les principales mesures de dispersion sont l'écart type, la variance et l'étendue.

Spanish

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