measures of central tendency
What measures of central tendency means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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A single figure standing in for a whole set of scores, chosen between three of them rather than recited.
The arithmetic mean is one of these, found by dividing the sum of all scores by the number of scores.
The mean is the most sensitive measure of central tendency because every score is used.
Statistics that summarise data and include the mode, the median and the mean.
Topics that use measures of central tendency
- Handling data (AQA A-Level)
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
- Data recording, analysis and presentation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- levels of measurement
- significant figures
- co-variables
- content analysis
- correlation coefficients
- level of measurement
- levels of significance
- measures of dispersion
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