Measures Of Central Tendency

Measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) are statistics that describe the center of a data set. The mean tells us the average value or score; the median tells us the midpoint in the range of values; and the mode tells us the most common value in the data set.


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Mohammed Looti, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES (2023) Measures Of Central Tendency. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/terms/measures-of-central-tendency/. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31575.96163

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