Deviance/Error
Distance of each score from the Mean
Sum of Squared Errors (SS)
Total amount of error in the mean
Errors/variances are squared before adding them up (because some are negative)
Variance
Average distance of scores from the mean
Tells us how widely dispersed scores are around mean
SS/Number of scores
Standard deviation
Square root of the Variance
Variance converted back to original units of measurement of scores used to compute it
Large = data spread widely around mean
Interquartile Range
Middle 50% of scores