Monday, April 11, 2016

Measure of Central Tendency


Measures of Central Tendency
  • Arithmetic Mean or Average
  • Median- Middle datum of a sample
    • 50% of data lies about mean
    • 50% of data lies below mean
      • To find the mean
        • Step 1- sort data
        • Step 2- determine whether n= even or odd
  • Mode- datum that occurs most often in a sample
    • 2 Step process
      • Sort the data
      • Conduct frequency analysis
      • Count the number of occurrences of each datum

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