Question

Central Tendency & Descriptive Statistics:

You have colleagues who reside in different zip codes. Which measure(s) of central tendency (mean, median, mode) or other descriptive statistics would you use to describe this information? (please answer in full paragraph - thank you)

Answer 1

We will use the Mode (Central Tendency) to describe this information, suppose I have 10 colleagues

Who reside in different zip codes that are given below:-

Colleagues                                        Location ZIP                           Location Name

Colleague1                                        XXXX01                                    Location1

Colleague2                                        XXXX04                                    Location4

Colleague3                                        XXXX02                                    Location2

Colleague4                                        XXXX04                                    Location4

Colleague5                                        XXXX01                                    Location1

Colleague6                                        XXXX03                                     Location3

Colleague7                                        XXXX01                                     Location1

Colleague8                                       XXXX04                                     Location4

Colleague9                                       XXXX05                                       Location5

Colleague10                                     XXXX01                                       Location1

Now suppose I have been asked the information about the numbers of colleagues residing in the locations, so we can construct the frequency distribution as-

Location ZIP                           Location Name Frequencies(No.of Colleagues )

XXXX01                                    Location1                                                                 4

XXXX02                                    Location2                                                                 1

XXXX03                                    Location3                                                                 1

XXXX04                                    Location4                                                                 3

XXXX05                                    Location5                                                                  1

Here we can see that total frequency=10.