central tendency

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central tendency (plural central tendencies)

  1. (statistics) A central or typical value for a probability distribution.
    • 2013, Donncha Hanna, Martin Dempster, Psychology Statistics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 54:
      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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