Measures of dispersion are defined as functionals satisfying certain equivariance and order conditions. In the main part of the paper attention is restricted to symmetric distributions. Different ...

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Knowing an average is not enough to properly describe a data set. You also need a measure of how dispersed the data is. Values that are packed closely together display greater consistency than those ...