What does central tendency mean?

central tendency

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"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."

central tendencies (plural)

measure of central tendency

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