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Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of central tendency are numbers that describe where the centre of a dataset is located. This section explains the differences between the mean, mode and median. Mean, mode & median The arithmetic mean, or average, of the data is the sum of all the data points divided by the number of data points. It is the single best predictor of the data set. This means if you were asked to guess what a randomly drawn...

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