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A COEFFICIENT OF VARIABILITY

Manuel Martinez-Pons1
  • 1 City University of New York, Afghanistan

Abstract

A coefficient of variability is described. It is shown that conducting all possible paired comparisons in a group of scores, the investigator can ascertain the group’s degree of variability as well as its converse, the group’s degree of homogeneity. The coefficient, useful in determining whether to divide a class into subgroups for the purpose of instruction, has the advantage that it is in the form of a proportion and that it thus provides a common ground for comparison of variability across measures.

Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Volume 9 No. 1, 2013, 62-64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2013.62.64

Submitted On: 15 June 2012 Published On: 12 April 2013

How to Cite: Martinez-Pons, M. (2013). A COEFFICIENT OF VARIABILITY. Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 9(1), 62-64. https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2013.62.64

Open AccessCopyright: © 2013 Manuel Martinez-Pons. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Variability
  • Variability Coefficient
  • Homogeneity Coefficient