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Measures of Central Tendency
Handles outliers well – often the most accurate depiction of a group.
5.1.3 · Summarizing Data NumericallyMeasures of Central Tendency
Measures of Central Tendency
Median
for odd nfor even nAdvantages
Handles outliers well – often the most accurate depiction of a group.
Splits the data into two equally sized groups.
Disadvantages
Harder to compute: data must first be sorted.
Less well known; many confuse “median” with “average”.
The median is the middle element
of a sorted list
of a sorted list
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