This document discusses various methods used to measure variability or dispersion in a dataset. It defines range, variance, standard deviation, interquartile range, percentiles, deciles, and coefficient of variation. It also discusses how to represent data distribution through a five number summary and boxplot. The five number summary consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum values arranged in order. A boxplot is a graphical representation of the five number summary.