Find the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode and range) for the following data set: 14, 27, 24, 29, 28, 25, 14, 26

Tell which of these measures would best represent the whole data set and why.

Question

Find the measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode and range) for the following data set: 14, 27, 24, 29, 28, 25, 14, 26

Tell which of these measures would best represent the whole data set and why.

anonymous · Answer

The data set ordered is: 14, 14, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Mean is 187/8=23.375
Median is (24+25)/2=24.5
Mode is 14
Measures of central tendency is an attempt to measure a "typical" values from the data set. The best measure is the median since the unusually low values of 14 bring the mean towards the left, while the median is unaffected by those values.