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Chapter 3 Measures of Location

The document discusses three common measures of central tendency: the mean, median, and mode. The mean is the average value and is calculated by adding all values and dividing by the total number. The median is the middle value when values are arranged from lowest to highest. The mode is the most frequently occurring value. These measures should be used differently depending on the symmetry of the data distribution. The mean is best for symmetric distributions while the median is preferred for skewed distributions as it is not impacted by outliers.

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Chapter 3 Measures of Location

The document discusses three common measures of central tendency: the mean, median, and mode. The mean is the average value and is calculated by adding all values and dividing by the total number. The median is the middle value when values are arranged from lowest to highest. The mode is the most frequently occurring value. These measures should be used differently depending on the symmetry of the data distribution. The mean is best for symmetric distributions while the median is preferred for skewed distributions as it is not impacted by outliers.

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Chapter 3 Measures of Location

Mean, Median, Mode


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1. The central tendency of refers to the middle of the group of scores.


a distribution

2. Measures of central ten- refers to the set of measures that reflect where on
dency the scale the distribution is centered.

3. mean, mode, and medi- Three measures of central tendency:


an

4. Mean arithmetic average of a group of scores; sum of the


scores divided by the number of scores.

5. mode It can also be defined simply as the most common


score, that is, the score obtained from the largest
number of subjects.

6. mode is another measure of central tendency. The mode


is the most common single value in a distribution.

7. mode is that value of X that corresponds to the highest


point on the distribution.

8. mode can be a particularly poor representative value


because it does not reflect many aspects of the
distribution

9. median If you line up all the scores from lowest to highest,


the middle score is the

10. median is the score that corresponds to the point at or


below which 50% of the scores fall when the data
are arranged in numerical order.

11. mode a score that actually occurred, whereas the mean


and sometimes the median may be values that
never appear in the data. It also has the obvious
advantage of representing the largest number of
people.

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Chapter 3 Measures of Location
Mean, Median, Mode
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_czgaeo
12. unaffected by extreme The major advantage of the median, which it
scores shares with the mode, is that it is

13. median - is the preferred measure of central tendency when


the data are ordinal scores.
- is preferred when interval or ratio scores form a
very skewed distribution.

14. mean is the mathematical center of any distribution, and


in a normal distribution, most of the scores are lo-
cated around this central point. Therefore, the ____
is an accurate summary and provides an accurate
address for the distribution.

15. mean Computing the ____ is appropriate whenever get-


ting the "average" of the scores makes sense.
Therefore, do not use the ____ when describing
nominal data.

16. the mean and the medi- Only when the distribution is symmetric
an will be equal

17. w all three measures ill only when the distribution is symmetric and uni-
be the same. modal

18. use the median to sum- The mean will inaccurately describe a skewed
marize a skewed distri- (nonsymmetrical) distribution. The solution is to
bution.

19. Use the mean to summarize normal distributions of interval or


ratio scores;

20. use the median to summarize skewed distributions.

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