What does "central tendency" mean?

A central or typical value for a probability distribution.

Central tendency

Q: What is a synonym for "central tendency"?

Common synonyms include: average, average score, center based, center value, central, descriptive measure.

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Noun

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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."

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average average score center based center value central descriptive measure

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dispersed dispersion extremes range based

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"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."

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