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This tag is very ambiguous. Dispersion is a general term for how spread apart values are. For questions related to disease dissemination content, use the tag epidemiology. For other meanings of dispersion consider using a related tag or creating a new one.

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Use Cases For Coefficient of Variation vs Index of Dispersion

On the other hand, the index of dispersion (ID) is not scale invariant and is dimensionless only when it applies to a dimensionless variable such as a count, as is the case in practice. …
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