measures of central tendency

Central Tendency

• is a statistical measures that identifies a single value or representative of an entire dataset

• It helps summarize data by indicating a typical or central value.

Mean, Median, Mode

three main measures of central tendency

Mean

__ is calculated by summing all the observations and dividing by the total number of observations

Median

__ is the middle value in distribution when the values are arranged in ascending or descending order

Mode

__ is the most frequently occurring value in a dataset

Unimodal

a dataset with a single most frequent value is called __

Bimodal

a dataset with two values that occur with the highest frequency is __

Trimodal

a dataset with three values that occur with the highest frequency is __

Multimodal

a dataset with more than one or more than three most frequent values is __

No Mode

if every value in a data set appears the same number of times, or if no value appears more than once, then there is __

Unimodal, Bimodal, Trimodal, Multimodal, No Mode

types of mode