In statistics, dispersion, also called variability, scatter or spread, is the extent to which a distribution of data is stretched or squeezed. Common measures of dispersion include variance, standard deviation and interquartile range: a distribution with large variance has values spread widely, while one with small variance has values clustered closely together. Dispersion is generally treated as a counterpart to location, or central tendency, and the two together are the properties most often used to describe a statistical distribution.
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In statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or squeezed.
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In statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or sque
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