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What are measures of central tendency?

Values that tend to represent the center of a distribution

Values that represent the spread of a distribution

Values that represent the range of a distribution

Values that represent the accuracy of a distribution

What are examples of measures of central tendency?

Mean, median, and mode

Mean, mode, standard deviation

Range, standard deviation, variance

Mean, median, and range

What is the most commonly used measure of central tendency?

Mean

Median

Range

Mode

Which measure of central tendency represents the value that occurs most frequently in a distribution?

Mode

Range

Mean

Median

Which measure of central tendency represents the 50% percentile of a distribution?

Median

Mode

Range

Mean

Which measure of central tendency represents the sum of all values divided by the total number of values in a distribution?

Mean

Range

Mode

Median

Which measure of central tendency is most effected by extreme values?

Mean

Range

Mode

Median

Which measure of central tendency is least effected by extreme values?

Median

Range

Mode

Mean

Which measure of central tendency is used as an estimate for this same measure of central tendency in the population?

Mean

Range

Mode

Median

Why is the mean so important in quantitative research?

It helps us summarize our sample data down to one value.

It is used as an estimate of the population mean.

The mean is the only measure of central tendency that is calculated using every value of the distribution.

All of these options

Sample Distribution: 1 2 2 2 4 4 6. Using this sample distribution, which value best represents the mean?

2.5

Sample Distribution: 1 2 2 2 4 4 6. Using this sample distribution, which value best represents the median?

2.5

Sample Distribution: 1 2 2 2 4 4 6. Using this sample distribution, which value best represents the mode?

2.5

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