Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The mean is an example of a measure of dispersion.
2. Frequency distributions describe the range and frequency of a variable’s values.
3. Frequency distributions are readily calculated by statistical software programs.
4. A histogram is similar to a stem-and-leaf plot but differs in that it shows the number of observations in each category.
5. When recoding continuous variables into ordinal-level variables, the width of categories should be equal, unless compelling reasons exist to do otherwise.


1.false
2.true
3.true
4.true
5.true

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