central tendency

noun

central tendency

noun

1

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics A central or typical value for a probability distribution.

Central tendency describes a single number that aims to give you a sense of the most representative value in your data. In other words, if you were to choose one number that would best represent all the numbers on a variable in your data set, this would be it.2013, Donncha Hanna, Martin Dempster, Psychology Statistics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 54:

Derived terms: measure of central tendency

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