What Calculation Gives a Researcher a Good Idea of How

question 25

Multiple Choice

What calculation gives a researcher a good idea of how spread out a series of numbers is?

• A) mean
• B) median
• C) mode
• D) standard deviation
• E) correlation coefficient

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