A measure of statistical dispersion must yield a number which is zero if all the data are identical and must increase as the data are more diverse. A very important measure of dispersion is the standard deviation, the square root of the variance.
Other such measures include the statistical range, the interquartile range, and the [absolute deviation]?. None of these can be negative, their least possible value is zero.
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Statistical dispersion