higgypop -

Your data are ranked categories, i.e., ordinal data. The appropriate measure
of central tendency is a mode or median.

If you had numerical data, then an appropriate measure of central tendency
is the mean.

- Mike

www.mikemiddleton.com

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"higgypop" wrote in message
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I have a frequency distribution of a five point scaled question. The data
is
not in raw form....just columns of responses....but a set of frequencies
As=22, Bs=13, Cs=24 etc.....if I had a column with 22 As, 13 Bs and 24 Cs
I
would just use the Average calculation to calculate the mean of this data.
Short of entering 22 As into the column followed by 13 Bs etc....how can I
calculate a mean. I'm using Excel 2000