The standard deviation is:
A) the square of the variance
B) larger than the mean
C) the variance
D) a measure of dispersion

Question

The standard deviation is:
A) the square of the variance
B) larger than the mean
C) the  variance
D) a measure of dispersion

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The standard deviation is a measure of dispersion or variability in a dataset, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean. It is not the square of the variance (that would be the variance itself squared), nor is it necessarily larger than the mean, and it is not the variance itself but rather the square root of the variance.

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