Conceptually, the standard deviation for a distribution can be thought of as:
A) the center of the distribution.
B) the average frequency for each category.
C) the average distance from the mean.
D) the distance between the highest and lowest value.

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The standard deviation measures the variability or dispersion of a distribution. It is calculated as the square root of the average of the squared differences between each data point and the mean. Therefore, it represents the average distance of the data points from the mean of the distribution.

Conceptually, the Standard Deviation for a Distribution Can Be Thought