MEASURE OF
VARIABILITY
MEASURE OF VARIABILITY
Statistical tools used to
quantity the spread or
dispersion of a set of data.
IMPORTANCE OF MEASURE OF VARIABILITY
• Understanding Data Distribution
• Comparing Datasets
• Identifying Outliers
• Informing Statistical Inference
• Risk Assessment and Decision Making
Use of Measures of
Variability
1) 2) 3)
Descriptive
Quality Control Market Analysis
Statistics
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Medical Education
Research
Interquartile
Range Range
4 MEASURE OF VARIABILITY
Standard
Deviation
Variance
RANGE
• The easiest measure of variability to
calculate.
• Used to know about the spread of the data
from the least to the most value within the
distribution.
RANGE
FORMULA:
Range= Highest score - Lowest score
INTERQUARTILE RANGE
• Provides middle spread of the distribution.
• Provides consistent variability for normal
and skewed distribution.
INTERQUARTILE RANGE
FORMULA:
IQR= Q3 - Q1
Standard Deviation
• Average amount of variability in your
dataset.
HIGH STANDARD DEVIATION
•Values are generally far from the mean.
LOW STANDARD DEVIATION
• Values are clustered close to the mean.
VARIANCE
• Spread between numbers in a data set.
•Statistical measurement used to
determine how far each number is from
the mean and from every other number in
the set.
LEVEL OF MEASUREMENTS
• To get the ordinal level of measured
data, the IQR (Interquartile Range)
and the Range are the only factors of
measures of variability that need to
be considered.
LEVEL OF MEASUREMENTS
• For complicated ratio and
interval level, the Variance and
Standard Deviation (SD)
consider.
DISTRIBUTION
• Variance and SD(Standard
Deviation) prefer to take the
complete data set into account.
• The IQR is the best measure for
skewed distribution.
CONCLUSION
It is a measure of how
spread out or dispersed
the data is around the
central tendency, such
as the mean or median.
A dataset with high variability will have a wider
range of values, while a dataset with low
variability will have values that are more tightly
clustered around the central tendency.
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