Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Median or mode

[Forbes Jan (jan.forbes]

Sharon

The median is the middle value of a list of values.  The peak of the bell
curve, where most of the values fall, is the mode.  

Which one you decide to use depends on things like the nature of the
distribution and what you are using it for.  If it is skewed distribution
the median is usually preferred over the mean.  If in doubt about the nature
of the distribution, it is helpful to look at mean, media and mode as well
as the standard deviation.

Jan

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