A way of showing the values (numbers, scores, amounts) at or near the middle of a group of values; for example, the “mean” and the “median” are measures of central tendency.
A single number that represents a typical value for a set of numbers; the three most common measures of central tendency are the mean, median, and mode.
A value representative of a frequency distribution, around which other values are dispersed; for example, the mean, the median, or mode of a distribution of scores. See also mean, median, mode.