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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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How to measure dispersion in word frequency data?
For probabilities (proportions or shares) $p_i$ summing to 1, the family $\sum p_i^a [\ln (1/p_i)]^b$ encapsulates several proposals for measures (indexes, coefficients, whatever) in this territory. …
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What functions qualify to be called measures of dispersion by statistician?
A more formal framework for discussing measures of dispersion was given in
P.J. Bickel and E.L. Lehmann. 1976.
Descriptive Statistics for Nonparametric Models. III. Dispersion. …