Measures of central tendency and dispersion Flashcards

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What is an advantage and disadvantage of the mean ?

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Advantage : Sensitive measure , includes all the scores values in the data set within the calculation , this represents data set better than mode or median
Disadvantage : May be unrepresentative , One very large or very small number makes it distorted , the median and the mode tend not to be so easliy distorted

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