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Contents of Comparison of Range, Standard Deviation, and Interquartile Range

Comparison of Range, Standard Deviation, and Interquartile Range

• Sensitivity to extreme values (outlier)
• Range - extremely sensitive
• Standard deviation - very sensitive
• Interquartile range - not sensitive
• Standard deviation
• Has desirable statistical properties
• Suggests numbers of cases in different intervals for bell-shaped distributions