Geography A-Level
Measures of central tendency
What Measures of central tendency means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Measures of central tendency
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Statistics that summarise a dataset by identifying its central or typical value, such as the mean, mode and median.
Topics that use Measures of central tendency
- Statistical skills (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Chi-square test
- Hypothesis testing
- Inter-quartile range
- Median
- Spearman’s rank correlation
- Standard deviation
- Statistical significance
- Mean
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