Definition of Measures of Central Tendency

Definition of Measures of Central Tendency

Various statisticians have defined the word average differently. Some of the important definitions are given below:

“Average is an attempt to find one single figure to describe whole of figure”

– Clark and Sekkade

 “Average is a value which is typical or representative of a set of data”

– Murray R. Speigal.

 “The average is sometimes described as number which is typical of the whole group”

– Leabo.

It is clear from the above definitions that average is a typical value of the entire data and is a measures of central tendency.