Calculating mean percents

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Are there any rules to calculating mean percent or is it the same as calculating any other average (i.e., add all of the percents together and divide by the sample size)?

This might be useful: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/23117/which-mean-to-use-and-when — dimitriy, Jul 16 '13 at 17:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 17 '13 at 09:37

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I can't see any reason why the mean should not be appropriate here. You might want to consider using the median to reduce the influence of outliers, but that is a point not specifically related to percentages.

edited Jul 17 '13 at 09:37

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Calculating mean percents

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