• The Census of Jails reports that the modal number of inmates per jail is 1. This value occurs more frequently than any other population value (51 times among 2,371 jails). • Use this example to discuss the limitations of using the mode to describe the central tendency of a continuous variable. • Identify the measure(s) you would use instead of the mode to describe the central tendency of jail inmates and explain why.
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The mode is the value that occurs most frequently in a dataset. In this case, the modal number of inmates per jail is reported to occur 51 times among 2,371 jails. However, using the mode as a measure of central tendency for continuous variables has some Show more…
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