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central tendencies

central tendencies is the plural of central tendency.

Meaning of central tendency

Noun

central tendency (plural central tendencies)

  1. A 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

Questions about central tendencies

What is central tendencies the plural of?
Central tendencies is the plural of central tendency.

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