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MetroP Q g ·dll. 87% 8:09 AM Completing this Assessment will help you to meet the following: Course Outcome Draw conclusions and/or make decisions through the application and analvsis of statistical information and summaries Directions Be sure to cite your sources in proper APA formatting and make sure there are no major grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors Make sure you download the Microsoft Excel file titled MATH201 States Data Set. 1. 2. Pick five of the provided States in the attached Excel file. The States are located on the left, and the data for each State is located to the right. Use the annual income data associated with the States you selected to find the following measures of central tendency for each State: 3. a. mean b. median c. mode 4. In a Microsoft Word document, show all calculations and answer the

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There can often be a "best" measure of central tendency with regards to the data you are analysing, but there is no one "best" measure of central tendency. This is because whether you use the median, mean or mode will depend on the type of data you have, such as nominal or continuous data; whether your data has outliers and/or is skewed; and what you are trying to show from your data.The median is usually preferred to other measures of central tendency when your data set is skewed (i.e., forms a skewed distribution) or you are dealing with ordinal data. However, the mode can also be appropriate in these situations, but is not as commonly used as the median.If the data set is perfectly normal, the mean, median and mean are equal to each other (i.e., the same value).

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