Question

numbers that describe diversity in a distribution are referred to as measures of range variance standard deviation central tendency

Explanation:

• Range: Just the difference between maximum and minimum values, a simple measure.
• Variance: It is a measure of how spread out the data is from the mean. It is calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.
• Standard deviation: It is the square - root of variance. While it also measures spread, the question asks for the general term for measures of diversity (spread). Variance is a more fundamental measure in the family of spread measures.
• Central tendency: Measures like mean, median, mode that describe the center of the data, not the diversity.

Answer:

variance