Which are the three types of Central Tendency?

Which are the three types of Central Tendency?

• A. Mean, Range, Variation
• B. Mode, Median, Mean
• C. Median, Variance, Standard Deviation
• D. Mode, Mean, Range

Answer: (B)

Central tendency refers to a single value that represents the center of a distribution—the value data tend to cluster around. The three commonly used measures are the mean, the median, and the mode. The mean is the arithmetic average and reflects the overall level of the data but can be influenced by extreme values. The median is the middle value when the data are ordered and is robust to outliers. The mode is the value that occurs most often. The other terms in the options describe dispersion rather than center: range is how spread out the data are from the lowest to the highest value, while variance and standard deviation (and variation) describe how much the data vary around the center. For example, in data like 1, 2, 2, 3, 100, the mean is pulled toward 100, the median is 2, and the mode is 2, illustrating how these measures capture different aspects of the data’s center.

Central tendency refers to a single value that represents the center of a distribution—the value data tend to cluster around. The three commonly used measures are the mean, the median, and the mode. The mean is the arithmetic average and reflects the overall level of the data but can be influenced by extreme values. The median is the middle value when the data are ordered and is robust to outliers. The mode is the value that occurs most often. The other terms in the options describe dispersion rather than center: range is how spread out the data are from the lowest to the highest value, while variance and standard deviation (and variation) describe how much the data vary around the center. For example, in data like 1, 2, 2, 3, 100, the mean is pulled toward 100, the median is 2, and the mode is 2, illustrating how these measures capture different aspects of the data’s center.