Another group of statistics is important in studying the distribution of a population.
These statistics measure the variability, also called the spread, of values. In the
definitions given in the sections that follow, notice that if the entire sample is changed
by the addition of a fixed amount to each observation, then the values of these statistics
are unchanged. If each observation in the sample is multiplied ...
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