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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=statistics">statistics</a>, a <b>central tendency</b> (or <b>measure of central tendency</b>) is a central or typical value for a <a href="page.php?w=probability_distribution">probability distribution</a>.</p>

<p>Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called <a href="page.php?w=averages">averages</a>. The term central tendency dates from the late 1920s.</p>

<p>The most common measures of central tendency are the <a href="page.php?w=arithmetic_mean">arithmetic mean</a>, the <a href="page.php?w=median">median</a>,</p><p>
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