Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321757270
ISBN 13: 978-0-32175-727-2

Chapter 3 - Section 3.4 - Assess Your Understanding - Applying the Concepts - Page 173: 39

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The interquartile range is the ideal measure of dispersion when the data is extremely skewed and contains several outliers. The advantage that the standard deviation has over the IQR is that it uses all the observations in its computations.

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