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CentralTendancy

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'''Central tendancy''' is the term statisticians use for any '''StatistiC''' that you could quote as ''representative'' of an entire DataSet.

The most commonly used measures of central tendancy are the 
#MeaN, the sum of all data divided by the number of data in the SeT
#MediaN, the value that separates the highest half from the lowest half of the SeT of data
#MoDe, the most common value in the SeT of data

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