Question 77 · LEK · Basics of medical statistics
The diagram shows two distributions of the same characteristic among adult population of the towns A and B. The difference between these distributions can be numerically expressed with the use of:
- A. the median.
- B. arithmetic mean.
- C. the mode.
- D. standard deviation.
- E. number of adult inhabitants of towns A and B.
Hint
Compare the two curves: do they differ more in where their centre lies or in how widely the values are spread?
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