You Want a Measure of Dispersion for an Interval/ratio Level

question 57

Multiple Choice

You want a measure of dispersion for an interval/ratio level variable. You want the measure that makes use of the fact that the attributes are not only different and have rank order but also represent a numeric scale. What statistic would you calculate?

• A) mean
• B) mode
• C) percent distribution
• D) standard deviation

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