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Question

Which, if any, of the following are measures of spread(变异)?

a) Mode

b) Interquartile range

c) Skewness

d) Variance

Answer

When presenting numerical data it is useful to give an idea of the range of values covered by the data. The maximum and minimum values would define the entire range, but would not describe how typical these values would be. Measures of spread provide a summary of how spread out observations typically are.

The interquartile range is described by the bottom and top values that contain the middle 50% of the observations in the set of data. 25% of observations fallbelow this range and 25% above it.

Variance is the average of the square of all the differences between individual observations and the mean. Taking the square root of this gives the familiar standard deviation.

The mode is the most frequent value in a set of data and does not measure spread.

Skewness is a measure of the lack of symmetry in a set of data and does not measure spread.

答案是BD

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