Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Central Tendency
Dear Students!
MATH
Prayer
Lord, teach me to number my days
And graph them according to your
ways
Trusting to base me in your plan
To complement our perfect diagram
Subtract the points you don’t want
from me
But add the values you have set for me
Dividing the dividends accordingly
So I can multiply them systematically
Draw the lines I have to follow
Guide me properly with your arrow
Because sometimes I tend to be
irrational
Yet all the while you want to be
rational
Well I learned that life is like a slope
With its ascends and descends I must
scope
Teaching me the variables of life
Is just like solving problems all the
time
Life is indeed an infinite equation
Perfected by your eternal computation
And I am only a miniscule projection
Give thanks and Praise to Almighty
creator. AMEN
ATTENDANCE
Learning Targets:
I CAN I CAN
illustrate the measures of calculate the measures
central tendency (mean, of central tendency of
median, and mode) of a ungrouped data
statistical data
RANDOM FACTS
01
The average Filipino man is 5
02 03
183, 755, 600 is a pretty large
The average human spends
feet, 4.25 inches tall; the number, and it’s the average
about a third of their life
average Filipino woman is 4 number of steps a person will
asleep.
feet, 19.89 inches tall. take in their life.
04
According to one survey,
05 06
According to another survey, The probability of a blue
women spend about a year of
men can spend up to a year of lobster exist is widely touted
their lives deciding what to
their lives staring at women. as being one in two million.
wear.
A branch of Mathematics that deals with
collection, organization, presentation,
analysis and interpretation of data used
for successful decision-making
STATISTICS
TYPES OF DATA
MEASURES OF
CENTRAL TENDENCY
MEAN MEDIAN MODE
MEAN
▪ The most frequently used measure
of central tendency because it is
subject to less error
▪ It is also easily calculated
▪ Affected by outliers/extremes
▪ Most reliable if there are no outliers
▪ Most important and useful
Where:
ഥ = the mean
𝒙
SIMPLE MEAN σ 𝒙 = sum of all
σ𝑥 the scores
𝑥ҧ =
𝑛 𝒏 = total number
of cases in the
sample
EXAMPLE 1 SOLUTION:
σ𝑥
Six friends in a 𝑥ҧ =
𝑛
biology class of 20 92 + 84 + 65 + 76 + 88 + 90
students received =
6
test grades of 92, 84, 495
65, 76, 88, and 90. =
6
Find the mean of = 82.5
these test scores Therefore, the mean score of the
6 students in a biology class is
82.5
1. 46, 58, 37, 44, 50, 47, 52 2. 89, 99, 79, 95
46 + 58 + 37 + 44 + 50 + 47 + 52 89 + 99 + 79 + 95
𝑥ҧ = 𝑥ҧ =
7 4
334 362
𝑥ҧ = 𝑥ҧ =
7 4
𝑥ҧ = 47.71 𝑥ҧ = 90.5
𝒙 = 𝟕𝟎. 𝟓
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, 20
Therefore, the
Therefore, the median
median of the raw
of the raw data is 7
data is 70.5
Find the median of the b. 46, 23, 92, 89, 77, 108
following raw data.
23, 46, 77, 89, 92, 108
a. 4, 8, 1, 14, 9, 21, 12
77 + 89
1, 4, 8, 9, 12, 14, 21 2
MEDIAN
𝒙 = 𝟖𝟑
Therefore, the median Therefore, the median
of the raw data is 9 of the raw data is 83
MODE
• 𝑥ො - x caret
• The most frequent value in the distribution.
• Not unique sometimes
• Does not exist sometimes
• Inapplicable to small number of cases when
the values may not be repeated
No mode – no mode
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Types of Unimodal – 1 mode
1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5
Mode Bimodal – 2 modes
1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5
Trimodal – 3 modes
1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5
Multimodal – 4 or more
modes
1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5
Examples
1. What is the mode of 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, and 10?
4 - Unimodal
2. What is the mode of 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16,
16, 17, 19, and 20?
12, 16 - Bimodal