Measures of central tendency: cell phone data
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Using the data you have collected please do the following:
Which of these measures of central tendency do you think most accurately describes the lifestyle variable you are looking at?
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Your tutorial is 165 words and explains which is better - mean, median or mode. It also comments on the standard deviation. The data is also graphed for a "visual" on the data pattern. This data has outliers and is highly variable. The data is given along with the computations done using formulas in Excel.
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None of these is a very good measure because of the large outliers in day 7 and 8 with the afternoon/evening calls. The outliers drag the mean up very high and so the mean is not a good ...
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