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Why is the interquartile range a more appropriate measure for spread than the range?
the interquartile range is not sensitive to outliers.
Why is it a useful value to report standard deviation?
The standard deviation of a distribution is the average spread from the mean (average). If I told you I had a distribution of data with average 10000 and standard deviation 10, you'd know that most of the data is close to the middle. If I told you I had a distrubtion of data with average 10000 and standard deviation 3000, you'd know that the data in this distribution is much more spread out. dhaussling@gmail.com
What is interquartile range?
An interquartile range is a measurement of dispersion about the mean. The lower the IQR, the more the data is bunched up around the mean. It's calculated by subtracting Q1 from Q3.
What is the purpose of finding the average of your data?
The basic function of an average is so that you have just one value to represent your entire data with. You don't have to say that your data range lies within this boundaries - you just have to quote the average and standard deviation and that more or less, gives significant information about your data.
What is the relationship between the relative size of the starndard deviation and the kurtosis of a distribution?
It is inversely proportional; a larger standard deviation produces a small kurtosis (smaller peak, more spread out data) and a smaller standard deviation produces a larger kurtosis (larger peak, data more centrally located).
