Central tendency or dispersion?
Exercise and reference answers
- Items
- Item
- Mean
- Category
- Central tendency
- Item
- Median
- Category
- Central tendency
- Item
- Describes where the data centres
- Category
- Central tendency
- Item
- Range
- Category
- Dispersion
- Item
- Standard deviation
- Category
- Dispersion
- Item
- Describes how scattered the data is
- Category
- Dispersion
- Categories
- Item
- Central tendency
- Item
- Dispersion
Explanation
One kind of number says where the data sits, the other says how spread out it is. Source: syllabus Maths, Ch 13 Statistics.