The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 18 - Inference in Practice - Chapter 18 Exercises - Page 435: 18.33

Answer

Small.

Work Step by Step

An outlier of a data set has a larger effect in case of a smaller sample. This is because an extreme value will not have a too big of an influence in a large sample as each individual data point has less of an impact on the value of sample statistics.
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