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A measure of central tendency that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position within the data is?

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Mean
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Mode
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Median
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All the above
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The correct option is D All the above

Positional average refers to the average which are taken out through observation from the series where a particular value from the series is picked up which represents the whole series.

In mean, the average of the whole series of observation is taken. In median, the middle most value of the series is taken whereas in mode, the value which occurs the highest number of times is taken as the representative value.


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