METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
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Question
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Measures of central tendency which is greatly affected by extremely low or high scores.
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Mean
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Median
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Mode
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Frequency
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Arithmetic mean takes into account the value of all items (i.e. very large and very small) in a series. Thus, it is only arithmetic mean which is affected by extreme values in the series.
Detailed explanation-2: -Arithmetic mean refers to the average amount in a given group of data. It is defined as the summation of all the observation in the data which is divided by the number of observations in the data. Therefore, mean is affected by the extreme values because it includes all the data in a series.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, it is concluded that Arithmetic mean is most affected by extreme scores.
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