To summarize the central tendency of a fuzzy dataset, some measures have been suggested in the literature. This paper aims to review some of the main ones, and examine their properties in a comparative way. A real-life example illustrates their application. Furthermore, the paper shows the ...
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Measures of central tendency are those that are utilized to determine the central point or value in a dataset or series. Mean, mode and median are three of the most common measures of central tendency. Mean is affected by the presence of outliers and therefore it should not be used i...
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The median values, serving as a second measure of central tendency in addition to the AM, are generally less susceptible to individual “outliers” than the latter. The values of both are consistently very similar; therefore, outliers do not play a significant role. ...
Data analysis Descriptive statistics, including frequency counts for cate- gorical variables and measures of central tendency and dispersion for continuous variables were calculated to summarize the data. Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z-tests were performed to assess whether continuous data approxi- mated a normal ...
Central Tendency Formula – Example #2 Consider the small data set A= 42, 21, 34, 65, 90, 45, 109. Calculate the Central Tendency for this. Solution: Arrange the data set in ascending order. Arithmetic Mean is calculated using the formula given below ...
Describe the measures of central tendency. Under what condition(s) should each one be used? What is an appropriate measure of central location and spread for data that are really skewed? To use the Central Limit Theorem for Proportions, the quantities n p and n (t - p) must...
This work is supported by the Institutional Research Pro- gram of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center Program, and the "Michele Rod- riguez" Foundation, Institute for Quantitative Measures in Medicine, Milan, Italy. References 1. ...