Central tendency

In statistics, a central tendency (or 'measure of central tendency') is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.Weisberg H.F 1992. Central tendency and variability, p2. Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences.   Measures of central tendency are often called averages.Upton G. & Cook I. 2008. Oxford dictionary of statistics. OUP  (entry for "central tendency"). 

The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean, the median and the mode.

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