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On teaching about the coefficient of variation in introductory statistics courses
Author(s) -
Trafimow David
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12042
Subject(s) - standard deviation , statistics , variation (astronomy) , coefficient of variation , mathematics education , mathematics , astrophysics , physics
Summary The standard deviation is related to the mean by virtue of the coefficient of variation. Teachers of statistics courses can make use of that fact to make the standard deviation more comprehensible for statistics students.