The arithmatic mean is not a best measure for central tendency.. It is because any outliers in the dataset would affect its value thus it is considered not a robust measure.. The mode or median however would be better to measure central tendency since outliers wont affect it value..
Consider this example :
Arithmatic mean dan mode from 1, 5, 5, 9 is 5.. If we add 30 to the dataset then the arithmatic mean will be 10 but the mode will still same.. Mode is more robust than arithmatic mean..
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An arithmetic mean is a measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by dividing the sum of the values by the number of values.
no it is a measure of dispersion.
Measures of central tendency are averages. Range , the difference between the maximum and the minimum, is a measure of dispersion or variation.
That depends on the data.
Median