Average Section Enrollment

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Average Section Enrollment is the average or mean of the total enrollment in the class sections included in an analysis.

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Where Term Appears
CSUMB Data Warehouse Dashboards:
Other Reports:N/A
Data Custodian
Academic and Centralized Scheduling
Data Source
Source System:CMS - SA
Source Table Name:N/A
Source Field Name:N/A
Census Process:Y
Logical Transformation / Calculation
AVG(Total Enrollment)
OBIEE Folder and Column
Folder Heading:N/A
Column Heading:Calculated

The average is just one measure of central tendency of a dataset and can be influenced by extreme high or low values in the dataset.

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Definition Source

"In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list. For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, and 9 is 5."[1]

References

  1. Average. Wikipedia.org. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average