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Which better represents a data set with several outliers the mean or the median?
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Which better represents a data set with several outliers the mean or the median?

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It depends on the numbers and how many outliers there are

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The median would be the better representation of the data set; the median would be the middle value of the data set, not influenced by the numerical values of the several outliers.

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