Measures of Central Tendency: Ordinal Data

Measures of Central Tendency: Ordinal 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 ordinal data

  • Explain why we can calculate the median and mode for ordinal data

  • Explain why it is pointless to calculate the average for ordinal data

  • Calculate the median and mode for pandas series

  • Explain why the .median() method does not work for pandas series.

Materials#

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