Statistical dispersion
STATISTICAL PROPERTY QUANTIFYING HOW MUCH A COLLECTION OF DATA IS SPREAD OUT
Dispersion (statistics); Measure of dispersion; Scattering (statistics); Dispersion (finance); Dispersion (finance, asset management); Statistical variability; Statistical Variability; Statistical Dispersion; Inter-patient variability; Intrawoman; Intrawoman variability; Intra-individual variability; Measures of statistical dispersion; Variability (statistics); Intraindividual variability; Variation (statistics)
In statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or squeezed. Common examples of measures of statistical dispersion are the variance, standard deviation, and interquartile range.