The Interquartile Range Is Used as a Measure of Variability

question 58

Multiple Choice

The interquartile range is used as a measure of variability to overcome what difficulty of the range?

• A)the sum of the range variances is zero
• B)the range is difficult to compute
• C)the range is influenced too much by extreme values
• D)the range is negative
• E)none of the above

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