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OpenStudy (gahm8684):

GIVING MEDALS How is standard deviation similar to range and interquartile range?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the answer is....

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Interquartile range is "better" to describe "spread" in an (empirical) statistical distribution of data standard deviation is a "better" measure and why it is used instead of interquartile range in many applications

OpenStudy (gahm8684):

Thats a great comparison, thanks

OpenStudy (gahm8684):

but i need the similarities only

OpenStudy (kropot72):

They are all measures of the spread of a distribution, otherwise known as 'dispersion'.

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