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percentages of the average value. This proportional index is called the coefficient of variability. So much then for the principal operations: counting or measuring; seriation of the numbers; determination of the mode, average, standard deviation, and coefficient of variability.
The results of comparative variation studies, so far, fall into two
Fig. 5. Frequency Polygon of Statures of 25,820 American Males; Lower Polygon, of 100 University Students.
general categories. First, we have got some notion of the classes of variation polygons that may occur among organisms; secondly, we have some evidence as to the significance of these different forms. As the science is only about five years old it is but to be expected that a satisfactory solution of even the principal problems concerning polygon
