turtle turtle Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 If there's an outlier in my data set e.g. 3, 5, 4, 3, 99 (99 is the outlier): is the range 99-3 = 96or is it 5-3 = 2 (excluding the outlier)? any help would be much appreciated i have a test tomorrow lol!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vioh Posted March 6, 2016 Report Share Posted March 6, 2016 If there's an outlier in my data set e.g. 3, 5, 4, 3, 99 (99 is the outlier): is the range 99-3 = 96or is it 5-3 = 2 (excluding the outlier)? any help would be much appreciated i have a test tomorrow lol!! The outlier is a piece of data that is distant from all other observations, and therefore should be excluded from the data set. And because it's excluded, so you cannot use it to compute the range for the data set. So it is 5-3=2. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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