We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

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So, that completes central tendency and dispersion.

这样我们就介绍完了集中趋势和离散趋势

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