Introductory Statistics 9th Edition

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Chapter 3 - Section 3.1 - Measures of Center for Ungrouped Data - Exercises - Page 88: 3.2

Answer

Outliers are values that are extremely small or large in comparison to the majority of the values in a data set. The median is a better measure of the center for a data set that contains outliers, because the median is not influenced by outliers.

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Outliers are values that are extremely small or large in comparison to the majority of the values in a data set. The median is a better measure of the center for a data set that contains outliers, because the median is not influenced by outliers.
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