central tendency

English

Noun

central tendency (plural central tendencies)

1. (statistics) A central or typical value for a probability distribution.
   • 2013, Donncha Hanna, Martin Dempster, Psychology Statistics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 54:

     Central tendency describes a single number that aims to give you a sense of the most representative value in your data. In other words, if you were to choose one number that would best represent all the numbers on a variable in your data set, this would be it.

Derived terms

• measure of central tendency

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: النَزْعَة المَرْكَزِيَّة (an-nazʕa(t) al-markaziyya)
• Catalan: tendència central (ca) f
• French: tendance centrale f
• German: Lagemaß n, Lageparameter m
• Portuguese: tendência central f
• Turkish: merkezi eğilim

Further reading

• central tendency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia