The Median Is an Appropriate Measure of Central Tendency for

question 44

Multiple Choice

The median is an appropriate measure of central tendency for

• A) data that are positively skewed.
• B) data that are negatively skewed.
• C) data that are on an ordinal scale.
• D) all of these.

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