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A statistician wants to compare how steady two data sets are when their means are very different and their units differ. Which expression gives the coefficient of variation of a data set with mean x and standard deviation σ?
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A statistician wants to compare how steady two data sets are when their means are very different and their units differ. Which expression gives the coefficient of variation of a data set with mean
x
ˉ
\bar{x}
x
ˉ
and standard deviation
σ
\sigma
σ
?
x
ˉ
σ
×
100
%
\dfrac{\bar{x}}{\sigma} \times 100\%
σ
x
ˉ
×
100%
σ
2
×
x
ˉ
\sigma^2 \times \bar{x}
σ
2
×
x
ˉ
σ
−
x
ˉ
\sigma - \bar{x}
σ
−
x
ˉ
σ
x
ˉ
×
100
%
\dfrac{\sigma}{\bar{x}} \times 100\%
x
ˉ
σ
×
100%
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