Measures+of+Central+Tendency

The measure of central tendency shows us the tendency of observation to center around a particular value (or pile up in a certain category), rather than spread themselves evenly across the range or a among the available categories.



Measures of central tendency s ummarise an __ entire distribution __ of scores in a variable by describing: – most common score (mode)  – score in the middle case (median)   – mean score (mean)  They a re useful because they can reduce a huge array of data to a single, easily understood number