Table 2
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Mean, median and mode of haemoglobin measurements from 48 intensive care patients listed in Table 1 |
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Calculation |
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| Mean |
The mean is the sum of the observations divided by the number of observations, in this case  |
| Median |
There are 48 observations in this dataset and so the median is the average of the 24th and 25th (i.e. the average of 9.7 and 9.9 = 9.8 g/dl) |
| Mode |
Several values appear twice in this dataset, 9.9 appears three times and 9.4 appears four times. No value appears more than four times and so the mode is 9.4 g/dl |
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