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The document discusses measures of central tendency including the mean, median and mode. It defines what an average is and some important definitions of an average that have been given by statisticians over time. The objectives are to understand central tendency, know the different types of measures and how to calculate them for grouped and ungrouped data.

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The document discusses measures of central tendency including the mean, median and mode. It defines what an average is and some important definitions of an average that have been given by statisticians over time. The objectives are to understand central tendency, know the different types of measures and how to calculate them for grouped and ungrouped data.

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CHAPTER

3
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

OBJECTIVES
Afterstudying the material in this chapter; vou should be able to
Und erst and the meaning of the term central tendency.
tendency.
K n o wt h e requisites of an ideal measure o f central
Iden tify different types of measures of central tendency.
etic mean, median
o Calc ulate various measures ofcentral tendency such as the arithm
a n dmode for ungrouped and grouped data.
Knowthe merits and demerits of different measures of central tendency.
to various r e a l life
Appreciate uses of different measures of cen tral tendency
business problems.

3.1 INTRODUCTION
ever, it is often convenient
Tables and graphical representation give a general description of data. How of
and useful t o define statistical measures that describe important features of the data. Some
data and consequently are
these statistical measures define, in some sense, the center of a set of
only used
called measuresofcentral tendency or measures of central location. The most comm
and mode.
measureso fcentraltendency are the mean, median

3 . 2 AVERAGE
a sing le value within the rang e of the data that is used to represent all of the values
Anaverage is rang e of the data, it is sometimes called a
i nthe series. Sin ce an ave rage is som ewh ere within the
measure o f central value.
n by different statisticians from time to time
Someoftheimportantdefinitionsof an average give
a r e giv ena sf o l l o w s :
re to describe whole of figures.
Clark
1 . Averagei sa nattempt tofind onesingle figu
sent them ni some way
2 . An average is asingle valueselectedfrom a group of values ot repre

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