A psychologist wants to analyse the spread of recovery times (in days) for patients undergoing a new cognitive therapy. They decide to use a measure of dispersion that takes every participant’s score into account, rather than just the extreme values.
Which of the following statistics should the psychologist calculate?
Range
Standard deviation
Median
Mean
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