Central Tendency is a term used in statistics to express the "central" point of a sample, which may express the whole sample.
Measures of central tendency
- Mean (a type of average) which can refer to
- Arithmetic mean (Arithmetic Average) - the most frequently intended meaning when the word "average" is used. It is also the default meaning when the term "mean" is used without specification (see the other types of means below).
- Geometric mean
- Harmonic mean
- Median
- Midrange
- Mode
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