Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Gennia's measures of central tendency

MEAN
a set of number that is divided by how many numbers are in the set to get the sum

set of data
1,2,3,4,5,6
6 divided by 2


MEDIAN
the middle number

set of data
1,2,3,4,5,6,
3.5 is the median


MODE
the nuber that shows up most in the set

set of data
1,2,3,3,3,3,3,6
the mode is 3

RANGE
the largest data, that is subtracted by the smallest data

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