In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Edward
Dreyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A colleague of mine - not a subscriber to this helpful list - asked me if
> it is possible for the standard deviation
> to be larger than the mean. If so, under what conditions?
>
Easily. Any highly skewed distribution will produce this. For example
enter 1,1,1,1,10000 into a stats program and look at the descriptive
statistics.
Ken
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