Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines
What are the characteristics of a population for which a mean/median/mode would be appropriate? Inappropriate?
The mean, median and mode are collectively known in statistics as measures of central tendency. A measure of central tendency is a numerical or categorical value that is supposed to be the middle-ground or center or average description of the entire data set whether obtained from a sample or the data population. Measures of central tendency are also known as summary statistics or measures of central location precisely because they describe the population data on the average across a wider range of values.
The mean is the ...