Write advantages and disadvantages of the quartile deviation. - Vidyadip

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Write advantages and disadvantages of the quartile deviation.

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Advantages of Quartile Deviation :

It’s definition is clear and it is easy to compute.
Extreme observations do not affect its value.
Quartile deviation can also be computed for the open - ended frequency distribution,

Disadvantages of Quartile Deviation:

All the observations of the data are not used in its computation.
It is not a suitable measure for other algebraic manipulations.
It is widely affected by the fluctuations of sampling.
This measure is less used for higher study in Statistics.

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