mean median mode
By John Hawkhead
learning my average
did not measure up
In mathematics mean, mode and medium are different types of averages from a data set:
- Mean is the average of a data set, calculated by adding all the data set numbers and then dividing the result by the total of values in the set.
- Median is the middle value of a data set ordered from least to greatest.
- Mode is the value that appears the most times in a set of data.
Further reading:
‘Central tendency’, Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tendency
Author bio:
John Hawkhead (@HawkheadJohn) has been writing haiku and illustrating for over 25 years. His work has been published all over the world and he has won a number of haiku competitions. John’s books of haiku and senryu, ‘Small Shadows’ and ‘Bone Moon’, are now available from Alba Publishing (http://www.albapublishing.com/). Read more of John’s sciku here!