A statistic that indicates the distribution's dispersion is a ________.
A) measure of location
B) measure of variability
C) measure of shape
D) measure of occasion

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A measure of variability (also known as a measure of dispersion) indicates how spread out or tightly clustered the data is in the distribution. Measures of location indicate where the "center" or midpoint of the distribution is (such as mean or median), measures of shape describe the pattern of the distribution (such as skewness or kurtosis), and measures of occasion is not a common statistical term.

A Statistic That Indicates the Distribution's Dispersion Is a ________