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Statisticians use a variety of numerical measures or indices in order to summarise data in a concise yet informative manner. The best known of these measures is the arithmetic mean, popularly referred to as the average. Closely related measures include the median and the mode. All three measures define values that tend to lie centrally within a set of data arranged in order of magnitude. For this reason they are known as measures of central tendency.
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Williams, R.B.G. (1984). Measures of Central Tendency. In: Introduction to Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06815-9_6
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