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Measures of Central Tendency

In statistics, a central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. It may also be called a center or location of the distribution. Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called averages (but that is technically not always correct!)

Measures of Central Tendency

Statistics. Mean, median and mode - 365 DataScienceMean, median and mode. The first measure we will study is the mean, also known as the simple average. It is denoted by the Greek letter mu..

CrashCourse Statistics: Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency (11:22)

Statistics intro: Mean, median, & mode (video) | Khan AcademyThe mean (average) of a data set is found by adding all numbers in the data set and then dividing by the number of values in the set. The median is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest. The mode is the number that occurs most often in a data set.

Inferring population mean from sample mean (video) | Khan AcademyMuch of statistics is based upon using data from a random sample that is representative of the population at large. From that sample mean, we can infer things about the greater population mean. We'll explain.

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