A sum of squares has the same value as the
A) range
B) variance
C) standard deviation
D) none of the descriptive alternatives are correct.

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A sum of squares is a statistical measure used in variance and standard deviation calculations, but it is not equivalent to the range, variance, or standard deviation itself. It is a component in the calculation of variance (which is the sum of squares divided by the number of observations minus one) and standard deviation (which is the square root of variance), but it does not directly equal any of these measures. The range is the difference between the maximum and minimum values in a dataset, which is conceptually and mathematically different from the sum of squares.

A Sum of Squares Has the Same Value as the