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To develop the exploration of your data set, we are now going to analyse the numbers in three ways - to look for middle values, to see how the numbers are spread out, and to look at the shape, or symmetry in the distribution. The topic for this chapter is middle values, or central measures to give it its proper name. We are looking for a single value, in the middle, which represents the data set. Because I am going to get you to look at central measures in several different ways, the diagram shown in Fig. 8.1 may help in mapping things out for this chapter.
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Boyle, C. (1986). Middle Values. In: Mastering Statistics with your Microcomputer. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18211-4_8
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