Range (statistics)

In descriptive statistics, the range of a set of data is size of the narrowest interval which contains all the data. It is calculated as the difference between the largest and smallest values (also known as the sample maximum and minimum).[1] It is expressed in the same units as the data. The range provides an indication of statistical dispersion. Since it only depends on two of the observations, it is most useful in representing the dispersion of small data sets.[2]

  1. ^ George Woodbury (2001). An Introduction to Statistics. Cengage Learning. p. 74. ISBN 0534377556.
  2. ^ Carin Viljoen (2000). Elementary Statistics: Vol 2. Pearson South Africa. pp. 7–27. ISBN 186891075X.

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