Meanings
nouncentral tendency (plural central tendencies)
plural central tendencies
- mathematicsA central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Central tendency describes a single number that aims to give you a sense of the most representative value in your data. In other words, if you were to choose one number that would best represent all the numbers on a variable in your data set, this would be it.
2013, Donncha Hanna, Martin Dempster, Psychology Statistics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 54
Translations
Arabic النَزْعَة المَرْكَزِيَّة
- النَزْعَة المَرْكَزِيَّةTranslations
Catalan tendència central
- tendència centralTranslations
Finnish keskiluku
- keskilukuTranslations
French tendance centrale
- tendance centraleTranslations
German Lagemaß, Lageparameter
- LagemaßTranslations
- LageparameterTranslations
Indonesian tendensi sentral
- tendensi sentralTranslations
Malay kecenderungan memusat
- kecenderungan memusatTranslations
Portuguese tendência central
- tendência centralTranslations
Turkish merkezi eğilim
- merkezi eğilimTranslations
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Chicago
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