How do I decide which measure of central tendency to use?
A common struggle for novice statisticians is choosing a measure of central tendency that is most appropriate in a given situation. It depends on the type of data you have and some basic data distribution characteristics. If your data values are categories or descriptive words (e.g., political party, eye color, the country where you were born), the mode is your best option. Categorical data is information that fits into finite options in which only one option can be true at…