Measures of Central Tendency — Mean, Median, and Mode

In this lesson, we will learn measures of central tendency. We will understand mean, median, and mode, how outliers affect averages, and when each measure should be used through practical examples. ## Lesson objective In this lesson, we will learn measures of central tendency. In the previous lesson, we covered data types and measurement scales. We learned categorical and numerical data, and nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales. We also understood that before choosing a statistical method, we need to identify the data type correctly. Now we move to one of the main topics of descriptive statistics: central tendency.