| 11. | Analysts may judge whether data has a strong or a weak central tendency based on its dispersion.
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| 12. | Notions of central tendency are often applicable at the item level-that is responses often show a quasi-normal distribution.
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| 13. | Similar reasoning has been applied to understanding the relation between people's ratings of social groups'central tendency and variability.
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| 14. | :As for the mode, those are probably situations where the mode is not an appropriate measure of central tendency.
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| 15. | Nobody looks at a random sequence of percentages and goes " oh-the central tendency is 35.7 % ! ".
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| 16. | As a result, the central tendency of a set of categorical variables is given by its median can be defined.
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| 17. | As Gary Fields of Cornell observed : " The Kuznets curve is neither a law nor even a central tendency.
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| 18. | Occasionally authors use central tendency to denote " the tendency of quantitative data to cluster around some central value ."
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| 19. | The central tendency of the governors'and presidents'predictions of C . P . I . inflation is 2 to 2 { percent.
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| 20. | But that requires that you have a good idea that such a central tendency " exists in the first place ".
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