In descriptive statistics, there are three concepts which help us describe our data: central tendency (how typical it is), dispersion (how varied it is) and distribution (how data is distributed). In this post I will talk about the central tendency, in other words, determining the AVERAGE of your data. I will discuss three main concepts here: mean, median and mode. I will also discuss the mild and extreme outliers and explain the tricky procedure of identifying them. They actually describe dispersion of data, but because finding them involves some operations with the mean, I decided to show it in this post.
In descriptive statistics, there are three concepts which help us describe our data: central tendency (how typical it is), dispersion (how varied it is) and distribution (how data is distributed). In this post I will talk about the central tendency, in other words, determining the AVERAGE of your data. I will discuss three main concepts here: mean, median and mode. I will also discuss the mild and extreme outliers and explain the tricky procedure of identifying them. They actually describe dispersion of data, but because finding them involves some operations with the mean, I decided to show it in this post.
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