Measures of Central Tendency Prepared by: Bhakti Joshi Date: November 21, 2011.

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Measures of Central Tendency Prepared by: Bhakti Joshi Date: November 21, 2011

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Measures of Central Tendency

Prepared by: Bhakti JoshiDate: November 21, 2011

Ogives

Ages

Frequency of Mobile Phones Owned

Cumulative Frequency

Percentage Cumulative Frequency

10 - 15 3 3 (3/30)*100=10%

15 - 20 2 3+2 = 5 (5/30)*100=16.67%

20 - 25 6 5+6=11 (11/30)*100= 36.67%

25 - 30 7 11+7=18 (18/30)*100=60%

30 - 35 5 18+5=23 (23/30)*100=76.67%

35 - 40 2 23+2=25 (25/30)*100= 83.33%

40 - 45 5 25+5=30 (30/30)*100=100%

Frequency of mobile phones owned

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Percentage Cumulative Frequencies of mobile phones owned

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Ogives (Contd…)OGIVE

Measures of Central Tendency

• Known as summary statistics• Description of numerical information• Analysis of information from the middle point

of a distribution and hence the term “Central Tendency”

• The starting point to analyse the spread of the data (Measure of Dispersion)

Mean or Arithmetic Mean (AM)

Roll No. Age

1 182 183 184 185 196 167 188 179 1810 18

Mean= 178/10 = 17.8

Interpretation?

Weighted Mean

Age Intervals

Frequency of Mobile

Phones Owned (f)

Mid-point

(x)fx

10 - 15 20 12.5 20*12.5= 250

15 - 20 40 17.5 40*17.5= 700

20 - 25 60 22.5 60*22.5=1350

25 - 30 70 27.5 70*27.5=1925

30 - 35 60 32.5 60*32.5=1950

35 - 40 30 37.5 30*37.5=1125

40 - 45 20 42.5 20*42.5=850

Interpretation? Weighted Mean= 27.16

Median

Roll No. Age

1 182 183 184 185 196 167 188 179 1810 18

…Central Item of a data set

(N+1) /2 = MN = Number of observationsM= Median

Median

Age Intervals

Frequency of Mobile

Phones Owned (f)

Cumulative Frequency

10 - 15 20 20

15 - 20 40 60

20 - 25 60 120

25 - 30 70 190

30 - 35 60 250

35 - 40 30 280

40 - 45 20 300

Interpretation?

Mode…Value that is repeated most often in the data set. Mode is not used for ungrouped data

Age Intervals

Frequency of Mobile

Phones Owned (f)

Cumulative Frequency

10 - 15 20 20

15 - 20 40 60

20 - 25 60 120

25 - 30 70 190

30 - 35 60 250

35 - 40 30 280

40 - 45 20 300

Interpretation?

Relationship between Mean-Median-Mode

• Mean < Median < Mode = Negatively Skewed

• Mean> Median> Mode = Positively Skewed

• Mean = Median = Mode = Normal

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