POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Tendency
18 Apr 2016
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Frequency tables bring order and meaning to our data. But we can summarize and condense our distribution even further. The key is to find values that can in some way represent the entire data distribution. And that brings us to our next topic: measures of central tendency and. Political science 3n06 semester ii 2016 lecture 1: measures of central. Recall our discussion of frequency tables the first step in analyzing our. There is more than one measure of central tendency. We have a choice in terms of what value we treat as typical or average or representative of a distribution. The key is to know which of these measures of central tendency should be used in which circumstances. Knowing which to use is determined by: The level of measurement of the variable in question. The mode is the score that is most common in your distribution: the variable category that occurs with the highest frequency.
