The 3Ms: Mean, Median, and Mode

Howdy all, and welcome back! In this episode, we begin our discussion and learning about measures of central tendency which are part of what we would consider to be descriptive statistics. We are specifically focusing on the mean, median, and mode. This episode will walk through the definition of each measure, an explanation of how we calculate them, and then some practice exercise using Excel and SPSS to find the mean, median, and mode of different datasets. In addition, we'll cover a bit about the normal distribution and when it's best to use the median or the mean. Be sure to install SPSS using the SPSS Download and Licensing Instructions on the Week 2 Roadmap Page if you're in the online only version of this class and let me know if you have any difficulties with that. The episode includes a lot of practice as well as answers for different portions of those practice exercises, so do take a few minutes to listen in and get that information!