Measures of central tendency are numerical summaries used to describe the central or typical value of a dataset.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!• They are also called as measure of location since they enable us to locate the position or place of the distribution.
Objective of Measure of Central Tendency:
The objectives of studying the Measure of Central Tendency are:
- to get one single value that represents the entire data.
- to facilitate comparison.
- to help in decision making.
- to help for computing various other statistical measures such as dispersion, skewness, kurtosis etc.
Types of Measure Central Tendency:
The three main measures of central tendency are:
