Which Descriptive Statistic Would Best Portray the Central Tendency of the Following

question 18

Multiple Choice

Which descriptive statistic would best portray the central tendency of the following distribution (1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 1000) ?

• A) The median
• B) The mode
• C) The variance
• D) The mean

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Definitions:

Cohort Effects

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Biological Theories

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