The Three Measures of Variability Commonly Used to Reflect the Spread

question 29

Multiple Choice

The three measures of variability commonly used to reflect the spread or dispersion in a group of scores are the standard deviation, the variance, and the what?

• A) range
• B) outliers
• C) skew
• D) percentile

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