How Do You Calculate Mean, Median And Mode For A Set Of Data?
In basic math, you learn very basic statistics such as mean, median and mode to analyze a set of data given to you. This article talks about the meaning of each one and gives examples to illustrate how to calculate them. The mean of a set of data is the arithmetic average. To calculate this value, add all the data together and divided by the number of data. For example, here is a set of data, 8.9, 8.8, 9.0, 8.6, and 8.5. Add everything up and you should get 43.8. Divide this number by five, and you should get 8.76 as the mean. The median is often confused with the mean, but it is not actually the same thing. Median is the number in the middle of a set. For example, when you have an odd set of data, you should rearrange the data from small to large. Then there is a number in the middle, that number is the median. See picture below; the number that is circled is the median. For an even number set of data, you should also rearrange the data from small to large. The median is the two numbe
