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What is meant by "central tendency" of data? Use 8 hypothetical data values that might be observed at your workplace and calculate the significant measures of central tendency (mean, median, and standard deviation).

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In Statistics 'central tendency' of a quantitative data is a value about which other observations in the data cluster around. Different methods can be used to specify such a central value. Depending upon the method of computation, there exist different measures of central tendency for a given data. Thus, measures of central tendency are measures of the location of the middle or the center of a ...

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