Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133956572
ISBN 13: 978-1-13395-657-0

Chapter 4 - Measures of Variability - Problems - Page 115: 3

Answer

It is impossible to get a negative value in variance and standard deviation. This is because the summation of the difference between each data and the mean will always be at least zero.

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