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The mean alone does not provide any information about the higher order moments of the distribution of the data set. Most important amongst these is that it does not give information about the variance - or the spread of the distribution. The data set could be distributed in a narrow band about the mean or spread more evenly over a wider range. It does not tell you anything about the skewness, that is whether there are many values smaller than the mean balanced by a few large values (or the other way around). Moments of the fourth or higher order are difficult to comprehend and, in most cases, ignored.
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What does the mean tell you about a set of data?
The mean tells the sum of the whole set of data.h
What does the median tell you about the distribution of a set of data?
the midpoint of the data set
What does mean mode and median have in common?
They all describe data set or data sets,hey tell you how far apart they are from each other.
What does mean absolute deviation of a data set tell you?
ask your mom they know more than u
What does a small absolute deviation tell you about a data set?
It means that particular observation is close to the population [or sample] mean.
