Measures of Central Tendency: Median and Mode
Calculating the median and mode for various data sets and understanding their applications.
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Calculating the median and mode for various data sets and understanding their applications.
Key Questions
- Differentiate between the median and the mode as measures of central tendency.
- Analyze situations where the mode is a more useful measure than the mean or median.
- Predict how adding a new data point might change the median of a data set.
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