measures of dispersion

some additional statistical information may be required to determine how the values are spread in data.

Dispersion is a measure which gives an idea about the scatteredness of the values.

Measures of Variation (or) Dispersion of a data provide an idea of how observations spread out (or) scattered throughout the data.

  1. [[Range]]
  2. [[Mean deviation]]
  3. Quartile deviation
  4. [[Standard deviation]]
  5. [[Variance]]
  6. Coefficient of Variation