Statistics Through Applications
Statistics Through Applications
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ISBN: 9781429219747
Author: Daren S. Starnes, David Moore, Dan Yates
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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By seeing the dot plot, it is observed that the median and inter quartile range would be condensed the centre and spread better the data. It is clearly seen that there is an outlier about 140 and median and inter quartile range are not affected by outliers but mean and standard deviation can be affected by the outliers

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