15.2 Measures of Dispersion

The dispersion or scatter in a data is measured on the basis of the observations and the types of the measure of central tendency, used there. There are following measures of dispersion:

  • Range,
  • Quartile deviation,
  • Mean deviation,
  • Standard deviation.

In this Chapter, we shall study all of these measures of dispersion except the quartile deviation.

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