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Central Tendency
When to choose Mean, Median,
Mode and what they indicate
Measures of Central Tendency
These are statistical terms that try to
find the center of the numbers that
are in a group of data.
Mean average
Median middle
Mode most common or most popular
Outlier a number in a set of data that is
much bigger or smaller than the rest of the
numbers
Analysis of Mean
What you can determine from the mean
if numbers are above or below the mean.
this measure can be drastically affected by the
addition or deletion of numbers to the data