STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
MEASURES OF CENTER AND SPREAD
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Question
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Which of the following measures of central tendency is not appropriate when you have extreme scores in your sample data
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Mode
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Median
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Mean
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -When one has very skewed data, it is better to use the median as measure of central tendency since the median is not much affected by extreme values.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The parameter that is not a measure of central tendency is (c) variance. The variance is one of the measures of dispersion in a given data set.
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