Chapter 5 · Data Analysis: A Concise Overview of Statistical Techniques · Slide 170/274
Measures of Central Tendency
Good for exclusive choices (this one or the other; no compromises) – works with nominal data.
5.1.3 · Summarizing Data NumericallyMeasures of Central Tendency
Measures of Central Tendency
Mode
Advantages
Good for exclusive choices (this one or the other; no compromises) – works with nominal data.
Shows the choice that most people wanted (the mean often leads to a choice that no one wanted).
Easy to understand.
Disadvantages
Requires more effort: you have to count the votes.
“The winner takes all” — there is no middle ground.
The mode is the most frequent value
among all observations of the variable
among all observations of the variable
The mode of
is
is
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