Measures of central tendency are numerical summaries used to describe the central or typical value of a dataset.
• 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:
