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Machine Learning With Go
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Machine Learning With Go

by Joseph Langstaff Whitenack, Richard Townsend
September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Measures of central tendency

Measures of central tendency include the following:

  • Mean: This is what you might commonly refer to as an average. We calculate this by summing all of the numbers in the distribution and then dividing by the count of the numbers.
  • Median: If we sort all of the numbers in our distribution from the lowest to highest, this is the number that separates the lowest half of the numbers from the highest half of the numbers.
  • Mode: This is the most frequently occurring value in the distribution.

Let's calculate these measures for the values in one column of the iris dataset previously introduced in Chapter 1, Gathering and Organizing Data. As a reminder, this dataset included four columns of flower measurements, along with ...

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