{"id":75,"date":"2017-04-15T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/conceptstest1\/chapter\/wrap-up-distributions-for-quantitative-data\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:10:27","slug":"introduction-measures-of-center","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/chapter\/introduction-measures-of-center\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Measures of Center","rendered":"Introduction to Measures of Center"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: Use mean and median to describe the center of a distribution.<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1988 size-medium\" style=\"orphans: 1;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1768\/2017\/04\/27190748\/Customer-Ratings-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"This is a customer review image showing a large amount of 5 star reviews and a large amount of 1 star reviews, making the average 3 stars.\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/>\r\n\r\nIn this section, we define three different measures of center: mean, median, and mode, all of which are different ways to define an average. Casually speaking, the \u201ctypical\u201d value in the distribution can be roughly represented by these measures of center. Depending on the data and its distribution, one measure of center might be most informative or most representative of the \u201ctypical\u201d value. In analyzing quantitative data, the measure of center will be one key component.\r\n<h2>Contribute!<\/h2><div style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Did you have an idea for improving this content? We\u2019d love your input.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1c102AdRYQlQyGBZE_RmqlYpP2GVpD57c-aLs3mlNv00\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 600; color: #077fab; text-decoration: none; border: 2px solid #077fab; border-radius: 7px; padding: 5px 25px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.5em;\">Improve this page<\/a><a style=\"margin-left: 16px;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vy-T6DtTF-BbMfpVEI7VP_R7w2A4anzYZLXR8Pk4Fu4\">Learn More<\/a>","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: Use mean and median to describe the center of a distribution.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1988 size-medium\" style=\"orphans: 1;\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1768\/2017\/04\/27190748\/Customer-Ratings-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"This is a customer review image showing a large amount of 5 star reviews and a large amount of 1 star reviews, making the average 3 stars.\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this section, we define three different measures of center: mean, median, and mode, all of which are different ways to define an average. Casually speaking, the \u201ctypical\u201d value in the distribution can be roughly represented by these measures of center. Depending on the data and its distribution, one measure of center might be most informative or most representative of the \u201ctypical\u201d value. In analyzing quantitative data, the measure of center will be one key component.<\/p>\n<h2>Contribute!<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">Did you have an idea for improving this content? We\u2019d love your input.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1c102AdRYQlQyGBZE_RmqlYpP2GVpD57c-aLs3mlNv00\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 600; color: #077fab; text-decoration: none; border: 2px solid #077fab; border-radius: 7px; padding: 5px 25px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.5em;\">Improve this page<\/a><a style=\"margin-left: 16px;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vy-T6DtTF-BbMfpVEI7VP_R7w2A4anzYZLXR8Pk4Fu4\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-75\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Concepts in Statistics. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Open Learning Initiative. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\">http:\/\/oli.cmu.edu<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":163,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Concepts in Statistics\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Open Learning Initiative\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"db2250c6-f9ce-43c8-b1ef-31b3c4e37a6f","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-75","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":43,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/revisions\/1991"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/43"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/75\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-concepts-statistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}