Python for Introductory StatisticsXYZ Homework Edition

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6. Measures of Center and Variation

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A numerical value that is representative of the dataset located at the "center". The three most widely used measures of the center of a data are the mean (average), the median and mode.

Adapted from Python for Introductory Statistics, by Simon Aman (Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with live in-browser code cells. License: CC-BY-4.0.

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