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... > medicine > clinical medicine > medical decision making > biostatistics and clinical epidemiology > measures of central tendency

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measures of central tendency

Definition

Measures of central tendency provide a single summary number that captures the general location of a set of data points. This measure should be a good representation of the set of data. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Measures of Central Tendency]

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