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What is the smallest measure of central location in a positively skewed distribution?
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Consider the set 1,2,3,4.5
mean = 3
median = 3
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Now consider the set 1,2,3,4,5000
mean is much more than 3
median is still 3
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Your Problem:
Ans: median
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Stan H.
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