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measure_of_location

measure of location

English

Noun

measure of location (plural measures of location)

  1. (statistics, probability) A single number used to characterize a batch, sample, or distribution or the position of an element of it.
Examples

minimum
maximum
median
harmonic mean
95th percentile
winsorized mean
midhinge

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

  • measure of form
  • measure of shape
  • measure of dissimilarity
  • measure of similarity
  • measure of skewness
  • measure of kurtosis
  • measure of dispersion
  • measure of association

See also