There are four typical measures of the central tendency of a frequency distribution. Which of the following is NOT a measure of central tendency?

The mean, median, and mode are measures of central tendency: they describe the center or most common value in a distribution. The method of least squares is instead a technique for finding a best-fitting line or model by minimizing squared errors, so it is not a measure of central tendency. The correct choice is the method of least squares.

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