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A data value is considered? _______ if its? z-score is less than minus?2 or greater than 2.

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The word that would best fit in the given is "unusual". The z-score is a measure of how close the given data point is to the mean of the values given with the standard deviation. When we say that the data has a z-score of -2 and 2 then, they are 2 standard deviations away from the mean value. 
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