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The language of research (part 13): research methodologies: descriptive statistics — measures of central tendency

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The language of research (part 13): research methodologies: descriptive statistics — measures of central tendency

Peter Ellis
30 June 2017

Quantitative studies that use numbers rather than words usually report their findings using one of two forms of statistics (Ellis, 2014).

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