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What is central tendency?

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In statistics, a central tendency is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. It may also be called a center or location of the distribution. Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called averages

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the tendency for the values of a random variable to cluster round its mean, mode, or median.

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