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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Measures of Central Tendency

Single values that describe the center of a distribution: mean, median and mode.

Definition

The best measure depends on data type and shape. Use the mean for symmetric numeric data, the median for skewed data or data with outliers, and the mode for categorical data.

Exam tip

Skewed data such as income or house prices = report the median.

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