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Measures of spread: range and IQR of the data set

We looked at measures of central tendency, which we saw were various ways of representing the “middle” of a data set. But central tendency isn’t the only thing we’re interested in when it comes to data. We also want to know about spread, which is how, and by how much, our data set is spread out around its center. We also call measures of spread measures of dispersion, or scatter.

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