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Lecture 18 : Range, Interquartile Range and Quartile Deviation

Shows why distributions with a similar centre can have different spreads. The inspected examples calculate the range and interquartile range in R and discuss how these summaries use different parts of the observations.

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Adds a description of spread to an otherwise incomplete report of an average or median.

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