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Measures Of Central Tendency

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Why is arithmetic mean the most popular measure of the central tendency?

Solution

Arithmetic mean is the most popular measure of the central tendency due to following reasons :

1. It is easy to calculate and understand arithmetic mean.

2. Arithmetic mean is based on all the values of the series.

3. Arithmetic mean is stable measure of central tendency. It is because change in the sample of a series have minimum effect on the arithmetic average.

Some More Questions From Measures of Central Tendency Chapter

The size of land holdings of 380 families in a village is given below. Find the median size of land holdings.

Size of Land Holdings (in acres)

Number of families

less than 100

100-200

200-300

300-400

400 and above

40

89

148

64

39

What do you mean by 'Average'?

Pocket expenditures of 6 students are (Rs.) 6,12,18,24,30 and 36 respectively. Find out arithmetic mean.

Name various kinds of statistical averages?

Give formula of weighted averages.

Give formula of calculating arithmetic average of a continuous series.

What is arithmetic mean?

Define median.

Define mode.

Give formula for finding out median.

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