Making Sense of Statistics for Family Practitioners: "Understanding median, mode and means"

Abstract

In our previous article in this series, we considered categorical data and noted that this form of data was usually summarised using proportions. The other major data- type is quantitative data. Quantitative data may either be counted as whole numbers (discrete data), e.g. the number of cases of meningococcal meningitis in an outbreak on a mine, or be measured using a continuous scale, e.g. temperature measurement of a patient with brucellosis.