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Central tendency — AQA GCSE Geography Definition | GradeGen

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GCSE Geography · key term

Central tendency

Definition

A measure describing the centre or typical value of a dataset, such as the mean, median or mode.

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AQA GCSE Geography · 8035

Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3

Measures of central tendency summarise its centre: what is a typical value? Measures of spread describe how much the values vary. Both are useful when comparing places: two rivers could have similar typical pebble sizes but very different variation in those sizes.
Revise: Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency, Spread and Percentages

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Mean
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