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How does the outlier affect the mean and median?
The mean is better than the median when there are outliers.
What is the outlier of the mean median and mode?
The median and mode cannot be outliers. For small samples a mode could be an outlier.
Advantages and disadvantages of mean in statistics?
MEDIANUse the median to describe the middle of a set of data that does have an outlier.Advantages:• Extreme values (outliers) do not affect the median as strongly as they do the mean.• Useful when comparing sets of data.• It is unique - there is only one answer.Disadvantages:• Not as popular as mean.
What are outliers and how do they affect data?
Outliers are observations that are unusually large or unusually small. There is no universally agreed definition but values smaller than Q1 - 1.5*IQR or larger than Q3 + 1.5IQR are normally considered outliers. Q1 and Q3 are the lower and upper quartiles and Q3-Q1 is the inter quartile range, IQR. Outliers distort the mean but cannot affect the median. If it distorts the median, then most of the data are rubbish and the data set should be examined thoroughly. Outliers will distort measures of dispersion, and higher moments, such as the variance, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis etc but again, will not affect the IQR except in very extreme conditions.
When the median and mean are substantially different what does that tell you about the data?
I think it means that our data includes outliers.
