Range and Mean Absolute Deviation

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In investment management, one of the most important things for an investor is the trade-off between the returns and risk from an investment. The return or reward is measured using the measures of central tendency while the risk is measured using the measures of dispersion. The dispersion here refers to how the observations vary around the mean.