This document discusses measures of central tendency and dispersion used in epidemiology. It describes the mode, median, and mean as common measures of central tendency that attempt to quantify typical or average values in a data set. The mode is the most frequent value, the median is the middle value when data is arranged in order, and the mean is the average calculated by summing all values and dividing by the number of values. Measures of dispersion describe how spread out data is, such as the range which is the difference between the highest and lowest values. The next session will cover additional measures of disease including ratios, proportions, rates, and metrics of morbidity and mortality.