Determine the best measure of center and the skew of the data distribution.

{23, 29, 12, 14, 27, 23, 23, 18, 23, 1, 7, 18, 43, 24, 28, 17, 32, 33, 38}

The value that best defines the central tendency of the distribution is

Question

Determine the best measure of center and the skew of the data distribution.

{23, 29, 12, 14, 27, 23, 23, 18, 23, 1, 7, 18, 43, 24, 28, 17, 32, 33, 38}

The value that best defines the central tendency of the distribution is

nickszuhy · Answer

The distribution exhibits a __ skew

mhchen · Answer

It looks like we have outlier of 1, maybe 7. So mean would not be the best choice.
The most frequent number is 23, but it only appears 4 times out of the 20 numbers, so thats not very good either.
If all else fails, then I would say the MEDIAN is the best measure of center.

You can graph this set of data on a dot plot or histogram to find the skew.