Question

Discuss why mean is the most widely used measure of central tendency in the health science research?

Justify your answers with evidence.

Answer 1

Mean is preferred as central tendency when the data points are close and there is no outlier. In health science research we preferred the data which are very close.

For example consider in a cancer drug trail we wanted to know the its effectiveness over the patient . So if the effectiveness would have huge variation then we will not accept it that means the necessary condition is data should be close . Hence we preferred mean is the most widely used central tendency.