Measures of central tendency:
a. provide a value around which scores in a data set tend to cluster
b. indicate how much the scores in a data set differ from one another
c. can be used to decide whether the observed behavior in a sample is representative of some larger sample
d. assess whether two variables vary together in a systematic way
A
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