If You Wanted to Identify the Most Frequently Occurring Score

question 13

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to identify the most frequently occurring score in a distribution, which measure of central tendency would you report?

• A) average
• B) mean
• C) mode
• D) median

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Definitions:

z

In statistics, often refers to a z-score, which measures the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean of a distribution.

Standard Normal Random Variable

A random variable with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, following a normal distribution.

Probability

A numeric scale between 0 and 1 that quantifies how likely an event is to take place.

z

In statistics, 'z' typically refers to a z-score, a measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.