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Definition of Measures of Central Tendency

Some of the important definitions are given below:

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.

 

 

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