What are the most common measures of central tendency?
Questions: Address all of the following questions in a brief but thorough manner.
- What are the most common measures of central tendency? Include brief definitions for the common measures of central tendency as part of your initial posting.
- How do these measures differ? How are they the same?
- What information is provided by each of these measures and what do they tell us? How could you use measures of central tendency in decision making as a leader and/or manager?
- What are the various measures of dispersion?
- What are the uses of these measures and what are their limitations?
- What do each of these measures tell a researcher? A leader or manager?
The final paragraph (three or four sentences) of your initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are making in your initial response.