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I have a large number of data. If i have to represent the data by the central tendency, which one i have to use, mean or median? The value of standard deviation is so huge too. Thanks.

for a project I need to calculate several means, I then compare each of these means to a distribution under the null hypothesis H0. However sometimes some values (...

for a project I need to get a mean each time, this mean I then use it to compare it to a distribution under the null hypothesis H0. However sometimes some values (...

Joris and Srikant/user28's exchange here got me wondering (again) if my internal explanations for the difference between confidence intervals and credible intervals were the correct ones. How you ...

Often introductory applied statistics texts distinguish the mean from the median (often in the the context of descriptive statistics and motivating the summarization of central tendency using the mean,...

Can somebody explain me clear the mathematical logic that would link two statements (a) and (b) together? Let us have a set of values (some distribution). Now, a) Median does not depend on every ...

When calculating the median for an even number of samples, we sort the samples and take the arithmetic mean of the two in the middle. This seems quite arbitrary - it assumes the best way to ...

Median of one number = the number itself. I am calculating the median price sq ft of properties of different areas based on the different data entries I have got that include their ID, area and ...

I have firing-rate data for neurons ranging from 40-60 in number for various experimental groups. I've seen both mean and median being used in the literature, but without much explanation for the ...

What summary statistics, mean, median, standard deviation, etc. should be used on a skewed, bimodal, dataset and why? These are almost U shaped in a histogram layout with a slight preference for lower ...

Although this topic has been discussed on the thread numerous times, I have yet to read a convincing argument for why the mean is favoured over the median as a measure of central tendency. This is ...

Wondering if any general guidelines whether using Mean or Median is better to represent the statistics of underlying data? I think using Median is always better, especially better when standard ...

In this IPython Notebook that I'm following, the author says that we should perform imputation based on the median values (instead of mean) because the variable is right skewed. I'm not sure I ...

What is better to use for calculating the score of a season of television: the mean or the median? I will say from the outset that my question may be somewhat subjective. That being said, my question ...

I've taken a few probability classes and now understand how to calculate some statistical measures like mean and confidence intervals. What I don't know is the what, when, and why of using these ...