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Measures of Central Tendency–Arithmetic Mean
• The most widely used measure of central value is the mean, . The
mean, also called the arithmetic mean or the average, is obtained by
dividing the sum of replicate measurements by the number of
measurements in the set:
N.B: change the capital N for n
sample number of data or results to
be small (n) to differentiate it from
the N (number of population data)
