How does adding an outlier affect the measures of center if the outlier is greater than the rest of the data? What if it is less than the rest of the data?

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Terryn · Answer 1 · 2018-09-16T11:56:27+0000

If the outlier is greater, ot brings the average up, but if it is lower it brings the average down, since its further away from the other numbers in the set.

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