Data Handling and Probability · Statistics and Probability

Measures of Central Tendency

Calculating and comparing mean, median, and mode for various data sets.

Key Questions

  1. 1Which measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme outliers?
  2. 2Why might a business prefer to use the median rather than the mean to describe salaries?
  3. 3Under what circumstances is the mode the most representative value of a data set?

MOE Syllabus Outcomes

MOE: Data Analysis - S2
Level: Secondary 2
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: Data Handling and Probability
Period: Statistics and Probability

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