The Standard Deviation Is a Measure of

question 232

Multiple Choice

The standard deviation is a measure of

• A) central tendency.
• B) the degree of relationship between two variables.
• C) the amount of variability in a data set.
• D) the difference between the largest and smallest scores in a data set.

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