Of the Three Measures of Central Tendency Which One Is

question 21

Multiple Choice

Of the three measures of central tendency which one is affected by extreme values?

• A) mode
• B) median
• C) mean
• D) neither mode, median, or mean are affected by extreme values

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Definitions:

Standardized Normal Value

A value derived from the process of transforming a data point to fit the normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a variance of 1.

Z-value

A statistical metric indicating how many standard deviations away from the mean a specific data point lies.

Random Variable

A random variable is a variable whose values depend on outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Standard Normal Probability Distribution

A probability distribution that has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, used in statistics to represent standardized values of a dataset.