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Chapter 4 Measures of Central Etndency and Dispersion 2008
Chapter 4 Measures of Central Etndency and Dispersion 2008
Chapter 4 Measures of Central Etndency and Dispersion 2008
•The Mode
•The Median
•The Mean
The Mode:
The mode is the most frequent score
The mode is the value that occurs most often in a set of
data
observation Values/score
1 5
2 7
3 3
4 38
5 7
Exp; 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6
If we find that every value occurs only once, the
distribution has no mode.
Or
if we find that two or more values are tied as the most
common, the distribution has more than one mode.
We usually find the mode by creating a frequency
distribution in which we tally how often each value
occurs.
data: 29, 31, 24, 29, 30, and 25 days
frequency distribution,
Mode = 29 days
Example
• find the mode for the following set of data:
15, 9, 19, 13, 17, 11.