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What are the characteristics of a population for which it would be appropriate to use mean/median/mode? When would the characteristics of a population make them inappropriate to use?
A population is the complete collection of all elements of interest. The most common thought when discussing a population, is the population of the United States or a particular location. A population in statistics can be something different. Your population could be as broad as every person in the world with cancer, or narrowed considerably to patients with pancreatic cancer. The population of interest could even be the tumors themselves (Grand Canyon University, 2013). In general, the mode is not used very often. It is not a measure of the centre of the data (Laerd Statistics, 2013). Sometimes there...