Mean, Mode, Median, Deviation

How to calculate and the advantages and disadvantages of all four.

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Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation  - the measure of spread or variability of a set of scores from the mean. The larger the deviation the larger the spread of scores.

Advantages
- more sensitive despersion measure than range as all scores are used.
- allows for interpretation of an indivudual score.

Disadvtanges
- more complicated to calculate
- less meaningful if data are not normally distrubuted

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Mean

Mean - add up all the scores the divide by the number of scores.

Advantages
- most accurate
- includes all the information

Disadvantages
- not one of the original scores

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