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Chapter3

MeasuresofCentralTendency

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EssentialsofStatisticsforthe

BehavioralSciences

EighthEdition

byFrederickJGravetterandLarryB.Wallnau

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·Describehowthemeanisaffectedwhenasetofscoresismodified

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·Describethecircumstancesinwhicheachofthethreemeasuresofcentraltendencyisappropriatetouse

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·Explainhowthethreemeasuresofcentraltendencyarerelatedtoeachotherinsymmetricalandskeweddistributions

·Drawandinterpretgraphsdisplayingseveralmeansormediansrepresentingdifferenttreatmentconditionsorgroups

1·Understandthepurposeofmeasuringcentraltendency

2·Defineandcomputethethreemeasuresofcentraltendency

LearningOutcomes

Chapter

·Summationnotation(Chapter1)

·Frequencydistributions(Chapter2)

ToolsYouWillNeed

033.1DefiningCentralTendency

·Centraltendency

-Astatisticalmeasure

-Asinglescoretodefinethecenterofadistribution

·Purpose:findthesinglescorethatis

mosttypicalorbestrepresentstheentiregroup

Figure3.1

LocateEachDistributionCenter

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03CentralTendencyMeasures

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·Figure3.1showsthatnosingleconceptofcentraltendencyisalwaysthe“best”

·Differentdistributionshapesrequire

differentconceptualizationsof“center”

·Choosetheonewhichbestrepresentsthescoresinaspecificsituation

●Themeanisthesumofallthescoresdividedbythenumberofscoresinthedata.

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·Population:

·Sample:

3.2TheMean

03TheMean:ThreeDefinitions

·Sumofthescoresdividedbythenumberofscoresinthedata

·Theamounteachindividualreceiveswhenthetotalisdividedequallyamongallthe

individualsinthedistribution

·Thebalancepointforthedistribution

Figure3.2

MeanasBalancePoint

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·Combinetwosetsofscores

·Threesteps:

-Determinethec