Measure of central tendency

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016800",
  "term": "Measure of central tendency",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Measure that identifies the general center of a dataset.\n\n2. A general term for several characteristics of the distribution of a set of values or measurements around a value or values at or near the middle of the set. The principal measures of central tendency are the mean (average), median, and mode.",
  "subject": "Measurements",
  "references": [
    "Watershed Planning Glossary of Terms; Watershed Planning Glossary",
    "Last 1983; EPA Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment: 5.9 Modeling, Statistics, and Math Terms at http://water.epa.gov/scitech/swguidance/standards/criteria/health/microbial/T59.cfm"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/measure-of-central-tendency/"
}