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What are outliers, and how do they affect the center, spread and shape of a data set?

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A value that "lies outside" (is much smaller or larger than) most of the other values in a set of data. An outlier can affect the mean of a data set by skewing the results so that the mean is no longer representative of the data set. There are solutions to this problem.
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