A tendency is a part of your character that makes you behave in an unpleasant or worrying way. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery
a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral
In mathematics, an average, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected" value of the data set. There are many different descriptive statistics that can be chosen as a measurement of the central tendency of the data items. The most common method is the arithmetic mean, but there are more than one type of average (median being another common example)
Statistics that summarize averages of a set of scores; includes mean, median, and mode Researchers use these statistics to describe the most typical scores in a set of data
There are three basic indicators: mean or average, mode (most common) and median The median is the middle response For example, if there are 19 responses, the median is the tenth response up from the lowest or the tenth down from the highest
A single value which represents the entire mass of observations The measures of central tendency include the arithmetic mean, the mode, and the median In tax compliance auditing, the arithmetic mean is almost exclusively used