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ERIC Number: EJ1035645
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1467-9639
Measuring the Variability of Data from Other Values in the Set
Jones, Dustin L.; Scariano, Stephen M.
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, v36 n3 p93-96 Aut 2014
Students have intuitive notions of the meaning of variability; some may see variability as how values in a set vary from each other. This article provides a measure of variability that is based on that conception. We introduce this new measure and a method for calculating it. Finally, we prove that this measure is equivalent to the population variance.
Descriptors: Data, Measurement, Computation, Statistics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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