Measure of Central Tendency
Measure of Central Tendency
Measure of Central Tendency
PRAYER
Dear Lord and Father of all, thank you for
today. Thank you for ways I which you provide
for us all. For YOUR protection and love we
thank you.
Help us to focus our hearts and minds now on
what we are about to learn.
Inspire us by Your Holy Spirit as we listen and
write.
Guide us by your eternal light as we discover
more about the world around us.
We ask all this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
CLASSROOM ORDERLINESS
What score is
TYPICAL to the group MEDIAN
of students
2.
3.
What score
FREQUENTLY MEAN
appears?
DEFINITION OF
TERMS
Measures of Central Tendency - is a
descriptive statistic that describes the
average, or typical value of a set of scores
MEAN
MEDIAN
MODE
MEAN - average of the data set.
ANSWERS
1. Stephen has been working on programing
and updating a Web site for his company for
the past 15 months. The following numbers
represent the number of hours Stephen has
worked on this Web site for each of the past
7 months:
24, 25, 31, 50, 53, 66, 78
What is the mean (average) number of
hours that Stephen worked on this Web site
each month?
PROBLEM 1
Step 1: Add the numbers to determine the total
number of hours he worked.
24 + 25 + 31 + 50 + 53 + 66 + 78 = 327
= mean
2. Find the median of the following
data:
Step 3: In this case, the median is the value that is found in the
fourth position of the organized data.