Measures of Central Tendency: Cardinal Data#
This topic builds very heavily upon Types of data and data types. Make sure you have fully grasped the contents of that one.
Learning objectives#
After working through this topic, you should be able to:
Come up with examples of cardinal data
Explain why we can calculate mean, median, and mode for cardinal data
Calculate the mean, median, and mode for pandas series
Explain why the mean is more sensitive to outliers than the median
Materials#
Video with English subtitles:
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Video with German subtitles:
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