Measurement of Central Tendency

By Abdulla Israr & Simran Rani

 CENTRAL TENDENCY

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Introduction

In statistics, the central tendency is the descriptive summary of a data set. Through the single value from the dataset, it reflects the Center of the data distribution. Moreover, it does not provide information regarding individual data from the dataset, where it gives a summary of the dataset. Generally, the central tendency of a dataset can be defined using some of the measures in statistics.

Definition

The central tendency is stated as the statistical measure that represents the single value of the entire distribution or a dataset. It aims to provide an accurate description of the entire data in the distribution.

Measures of Central Tendency

The central tendency of the dataset can be found out using the three important measures namely mean, median and mode.

Mean

The mean represents the average value of the dataset. It can be calculated as the sum of all the values in the dataset divided by the number of values. In general, it is considered as the arithmetic mean. Some other measures of mean used to find the central tendency are as follows:

  • Geometric Mean
  • Harmonic Mean
  • Weighted Mean

It is observed that if all the values in the dataset are the same, then all geometric, arithmetic and harmonic mean values are the same. If there is variability in the data, then the mean value differs. Calculating the mean value is completely easy. The formula to calculate the mean value is given by:

Mean = (Sum of all data points) ÷ (Number of data points)

                                                OR

                        (X1 + X2 + X3......Xn) /n

Median

Median is the middle value of the dataset in which the dataset is arranged in the ascending order or in descending order. When the dataset contains an even number of values, then the median value of the dataset can be found by taking the mean of the middle two values.

Consider the given dataset with the odd number of observations arranged in descending order – 23, 21, 18, 16, 15, 13, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, and 2

Here 12 is the middle or median number that has 6 values above it and 6 values below it.

Now, consider another example with an even number of observations that are arranged in descending order – 40, 38, 35, 33, 32, 30, 29, 27, 26, 24, 23, 22, 19, and 17

When you look at the given dataset, the two middle values obtained are 27 and 29.

Now, find out the mean value for these two numbers.

i.e.,(27+29)/2 =28

Therefore, the median for the given data distribution is 28.

Mode

The mode represents the frequently occurring value in the dataset. Sometimes the dataset may contain multiple modes and in some cases, it does not contain any mode at all.

Consider the given dataset 5, 4, 2, 3, 2, 1, 5, 4, 5

Since the mode represents the most common value. Hence, the most frequently repeated value in the given dataset is 5.

Based on the properties of the data, the measures of central tendency are selected.

  • If you have a symmetrical distribution of continuous data, all the three measures of central tendency hold good. But most of the times, the analyst uses the mean because it involves all the values in the distribution or dataset.
  • If you have skewed distribution, the best measure of finding the central tendency is the median.
  • If you have the original data, then both the median and mode are the best choice of measuring the central tendency.
  • If you have categorical data, the mode is the best choice to find the central tendency.

 

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