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Re: They're wrong. You left out the other measure of central tendency: the mode. In statistics, the mode is the value that occurs the most frequently in a data set or a probability distribution. |
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Tairei
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Beaverton, OR | Yeah but everybody still thinks of average being the only relevant one. Ask random people on the street what the mode of a given set of numbers is and they'll likely either quote the average or stare at you all confused. |
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 jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL
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said by jjeffeory:You left out the other measure of central tendency: the mode. In statistics, the mode is the value that occurs the most frequently in a data set or a probability distribution. There's a small hairy German man screaming something about "standard deviations" in my brain but I think that's just a flashback to statistics class in college.... the alcohol makes him go away. |
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