Lecture 6: Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode

Lecture 6: Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode

1. What does central tendency mean?

2. Calculating the Mean:

3. Locating the Median.

If N is odd, case number (N+1)/2.

If N is even, midpoint between case numer N/2 and (N/2) +1.

4. Median, Quartiles, Deciles, and Percentiles.

5. The Mode.

6. Central Tendency and Stata