Standard deviation is a measure of variation of scores. The measures of central tendency are the mean, mode and median.
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is the standard deviation a measure of the center or distribution...
my teacher told me center
i read the article
and i\'ve been lead to believe its a measure of the distribution not the center...
if it is a measure of the center how is it? I think it\'s a measure of the distribution...
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Standard deviation is the measure of distribution. For example, it is the span between the least and greatest values of a data set. Hope this helps :)