MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

Question 1

Three common measures of
central tendency:

Answer 1

MODE, MEDIAN, MEAN

Question 2

is a descriptive statistic that describes the average, or typical value of a set of scores

Answer 2

Measures of central tendencies

Question 3

is the sum of the data
values divided by the number of
data items.

Answer 3

mean

Question 4

is the middle value of an
odd number of data items arranged in
order. For an even number of data items, the median
is the average of the two middle values.

Answer 4

Median

Question 5

is the value or values that occur most
often. When all the data values occur the same
number of times, there is no mode.

Answer 5

mode

Question 6

of a set of data is the difference
between the greatest and least values. It is used
to show the spread of the data in a data set.

Answer 6

range

Question 7

is the score that occurs
most frequently in a
set of data

Answer 7

mode

Question 8

When a distribution
has two “modes,” it
is called _______

Answer 8

bimodal

Question 9

If a distribution has more than 2
“modes,” it is called

Answer 9

multimodal