The center of a distribution is the mean. But barely anyone is “average.” Everyone is at...
The center of a distribution is the mean. But barely anyone is “average.” Everyone is at some distance from the average. The typical distance from the average is called the ____ ____. Another way of saying that is that the ___ ___ is the typical size of a deviation from the mean.
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The center of a distribution is the mean.
The typical distance from the average is called the standard deviation. Another way of saying that is that the standard deviation is the typical size of a deviation from the mean.
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