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OpenStudy (lena772):

which best describes how to measure the spread of this data?

OpenStudy (lena772):

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

hint : both distributions have outliers and are skewed

OpenStudy (lena772):

The second option?

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

standard deviation and mean wont work well wid skewed distributions

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

IQR works well when data is skewed a lot

OpenStudy (lena772):

So A?

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

since both distributions are skewed, IQR best describes the bulk of data

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

yup ! its A!!

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