EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The central tendency measure is defined as the number used to represent the center or middle of a set of data values. The three commonly used measures of central tendency are the mean, median, and mode.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are three often-used measures of average: Mean – what in everyday language would think of as the average of a set of figures. Median – the ‘middle’ value of a dataset. Mode – the most common value.

Detailed explanation-3: -The mean (average) of a data set is found by adding all numbers in the data set and then dividing by the number of values in the set. The median is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest. The mode is the number that occurs most often in a data set.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mean is the most frequently used measure of central tendency and generally considered the best measure of it. However, there are some situations where either median or mode are preferred. Median is the preferred measure of central tendency when: There are a few extreme scores in the distribution of the data.

Detailed explanation-5: -Did you know that there are four different types of Average? We consider there to be four types of average: mean, mode, median and range. Actually, range is a measure of spread or distribution but the others are our most common “measures of central tendency”.