Statistics and health care: definitions of mean, median and
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What are the definitions of means, medians and modes? Give an example of each that are reported in a health care organization.
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Before you can begin to understand statistics, there are four terms you will need to fully understand. The first term 'average' is something we have been familiar with from a very early age when we start analyzing our marks on report cards. We add together all of our test results and then divide it by the sum of the total number of marks there are. We often call it the average. However,in statistics it's the Mean!
1. Mean is also called ...
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