The mean is the average that appears in a set of data. The median is the midway point above (below) where 50% of the values in the data occur. The mode refers to the most frequently observed value ...

AN AVERAGE PUZZLE: The first words of the theme answers – MEAN, MEDIAN, and MODE – are types of AVERAGEs. When we see a math-related clue, I often joke, "Who put math in our word puzzle?" ...

or no mode at all. Other popular measures of central tendency include the mean, or the average of a set, and the median, the middle value in a set. In statistics, data can be distributed in ...