Measures of Central Tendency

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  • Created by: Beth_Gee
  • Created on: 09-05-14 21:00

Measures of Central Tendency

Mean

• Statistical average

• Calculated by adding up all the scores and dividing them by the number of scores

• Use; Take following raw data where we’ve measured the height of 5 people

• Good for; most powerful measure of tendency, using all number

• Bad for; can be distorted by extreme scores which is unrepresentative data

Median

• The middle

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