Lesson 5 - Measures of central
tendency
Class Organisational Research Methodology IOP2601
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Tredoux, C. & Durrheim, K. (2019). Numbers, hypotheses and
Sources conclusions: A course in statistics for the social sciences (3rd ed.).
Juta. [ISBN: 978 1 48512 544 0]
The Mean
the arithmetic average of a group of numbers
Trimmed Mean
A useful way of reducing the influence of extreme scores (outliers) is to exclude
a small portion of the highest and lowest scores before calculating the mean.
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