I am not experienced statistician but I have one simple question. I
have 2 continuous variables from different populations. One has a mean
of 50 one has a mean of 0.3. When I graph their distributions the
first one (with 50 mean) appears to be less variable than the second
(with mean of 0.3). It has a very gaussian appearance, whereas the
other appears highly skewed on both tails. However, because the first
has much larger magnitude, it has larger variance.
My question is -can I somehow systematically compare the
variability of two samples from different populations? Perhaps there
is some sort of method fopr standardizing variances? I would like to
do better than simply say "the graphs suggest that one variable is
more/less variable than the other" which is what I am doing now.
I thank you for your time,
Sincerly,
Yorgi V.
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