In the article Material Culture as Memory: Combs and Cremations in Early Medieval Britain (Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 89128), H. Williams

In the article €œMaterial Culture as Memory: Combs and Cremations in Early Medieval Britain€ (Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 89€“128), H. Williams discussed the frequency of cremation burials found in 17 archaeological sites in eastern England. Here are the data.

a. Obtain the sample standard deviation of these data.
b. Do you think that, in this case, the sample standard deviation provides a good measure of variation? Explain your answer.

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