Median

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Easy to calculate for small sets of data
Used with ordinal data
Better than the mean if there's outliers
Pain to work with larger sets of data
Not good with small sets of data - poor representation of the middle
Not as sensitive as the mean
Use for I/R data if the data is skewed - there's outliers

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