MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

The measures of central tendency are often used to gauge the expected value of a particular data.
In statistics, there are three ways to measure the central tendency of a data- the mean, median,
and mode.
Mean
There are two kinds of means. These are the population mean (𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝜇) and the sample
mean(𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 ̅̅̅ 𝑥). Take note that a sample is only a subset of a population. The population
is the entirety of the observations.
For example, when dealing with the voting class in the Philippines all the people who can vote
are included in the population. The voters in Pangasinan are only a sample of the population.
The process of calculating the population and sample mean is the same.
In calculating the mean of an ungrouped data, add all the scores of the observations and divide
the sum by the number of observations.
Median
For an ungrouped data, the median is the middle observation in a data provided that the data is
arranged in ascending (or descending order).
Mode
The mode is the most frequently occurring data.

Example:
A sample of five bags of rice have the following weights:
50.8 kg, 49.7 kg, 49.6 kg, 50.0 kg, 49.7 kg
What is the mean, median, and mode of the data set?

Answer:
50.8+49.7+49.6+50.0+49.7
Mean = 5

Mean= 49.96
Median
In ascending order, the weights are as follows:
49.6 kg, 49.7 kg, 49.7 kg, 50.0 kg, 50.8 kg
Median= 49.7
Since the observation 49.7 kg appeared most often, the Mode= 49.7 kg.