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mean

mean The mean, or arithmetic mean, is the usual sense of “average” and is a measure of central tendency found by adding all values and dividing by how many values there are.

The mean, or arithmetic mean, is the usual sense of “average” and is a measure of central tendency found by adding all values and dividing by how many values there are. It is widely used, but it can be misleading when a distribution is skewed or includes outliers.