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measures of variability  

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  • Numerical summaries used to describe a set of data generally include a measure of central tendency. While this provides a single estimate that describes where the data are located, it does not describe how spread out the data are about this central point. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Measures of Variability]

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