LESSON 4: MEASURES OF DISPERSION
| Institution | KENYATTA UNIVERSITY |
| Course | SST101: INTRODUCTION... |
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The measures of central tendency are not sufficient measures to reveal the shape of the distribution of data set. The measures that show the spread of a data set are called the measures of dispersion. The main measures of dispersion are range, inter quartile range, standard deviation, variance and coefficient of variation. In this lesson we will discuss these measures of dispersion.
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