Monday, June 6, 2011

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Central Tendency- A value that represents the center of a data set.
3 types of data set - Mean,Median&Mode
Data set is a group of numbers that you must arrange in order from least to greatest.
Median- the middle number in a set of data, after the data have been arranged in order
How to get the median (Eliminate one from the left,eliminate one from the right)
Mode- the most frequently occurring number in a set of data
Mean - measure of central tendency. The sum of a set of values divided by the number of of values in the set.(add up all the numbers, divide that number by how many numbers there are)
Range- the positive difference between the largest to smallest values in a data set
Outlier- a value that is much larger or smaller than the other data value

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7 comments:

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Tinille8-73 said...

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Mary816 said...

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