At 04:32 PM 10/12/01 -0500, you 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?
what about z scores??? mean = 0 and sd = 1 >At first blush I do not think so --------- but then I believe I have seen >some research results in which standard deviation was larger than the mean. > >Any help will be greatly appreciated.. >cheers....ECD > >___________________________ > >Edward C. Dreyer >Political Science >The University of Tulsa >________________________ > > > > > >================================================================= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about >the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ >================================================================= > ============================================================== dennis roberts, penn state university educational psychology, 8148632401 http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
