tendency

Definition of tendency in English English dictionary: a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward
Denim has a tendency to fade.; direction or inclination, as toward some objector end; Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result; {n} a drift, scope, course; A tendency is a part of your character that makes you behave in an unpleasant or worrying way. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery; an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"; A tendency is a worrying or unpleasant habit or action that keeps occurring. the government's tendency towards secrecy in recent years; a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"; {i} inclination, leaning, partiality; a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"; a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market; an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"; tendence; vritti
tendency writing: Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral
tendency to anxiety: tendency to become concerned, inclination to feel anxious
tendency to exaggerate: inclination to exaggerate, tendency to embellish the truth
measure of central tendency: A measure of location for a batch, a sample, or a distribution characterizing a value around which are spread the members or the distribution
measures of central tendency: plural form of measure of central tendency
central tendency: In mathematics, an average, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected" value of the data set. There are many different descriptive statistics that can be chosen as a measurement of the central tendency of the data items. The most common method is the arithmetic mean, but there are more than one type of average (median being another common example)
A tendency: inclination
central tendency: A common error that occurs when every employee is incorrectly rated near the average or middle of the scale
central tendency: A statistical measure that identifies a single score (usually a central value) to serve as a representative for the entire group
central tendency: An average or middle value for a distribution of scores
central tendency: point within the range about which the rest of the data is considered balanced
central tendency: The tendency to assign most ratees to middle-range job performance categories
central tendency: The tendency of data gathered from a process to cluster toward a middle value somewhere between the high and low values of measurement
central tendency: the typical value
central tendency: trend for scores in a distribution to be concentrated near the middle of the distribution
central tendency: The middle of a distribution Described by mean, median, and mode
central tendency: The tendency of data gathered from a process to cluster toward middle values, somewhere between the high and low values of measurement
central tendency: Statistics that summarize averages of a set of scores; includes mean, median, and mode Researchers use these statistics to describe the most typical scores in a set of data
central tendency: There are three basic indicators: mean or average, mode (most common) and median The median is the middle response For example, if there are 19 responses, the median is the tenth response up from the lowest or the tenth down from the highest
central tendency: a measurement that summarizes a data set with a single number; there are three types of measurement of the central tendency
central tendency: A single value which represents the entire mass of observations The measures of central tendency include the arithmetic mean, the mode, and the median In tax compliance auditing, the arithmetic mean is almost exclusively used
central tendency: The tendency to assign most ratees to middle-range job performance categories (4)
growing tendency: increasing inclination
militant tendency: a Trotskyist political organization in Great Britain set up in 1964 inside the Labour Party
natural tendency: inborn ability, natural inclination
tendencies: plural of tendency
tendency to: predisposition to