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Outliers will make give the graph a long tail (or tails). Overall, the graph will be flatter and wider.

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Q: How do outliers influence the shape and spread of the data?
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What you deciede to do when drawing conclusions about data?

Mostly through statistics, or summaries of the data set (depending on the type of data). There are many different statistical methods used to analyze the many different types of data that come from research studies or experiments. However if you just want a relatively quick and simplistic overview of a set of data than you should follow SOCS: Shape, Outliers, Center, Spread. Shape (the shape of the graphed data points) Outliers (any data points that fall outside the realm of "normal") Center (where the data points are mostly centered around) and Spread (the range of the data points). This should give you some immediate conclusions from your data.


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When to use quartile deviation?

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Do they have outliers in a data set?

If the data numbers are all really close together than no. But if the data has numbers; for example: 12,43,45,51,57,62,90 (12 and 90 are the outliers) which are really far aprt, than yes.


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Mode: Data are qualitative or categoric. Median: Quantitative data with outliers - particularly if the distribution is skew. Mean: Quantitative data without outliers, or else approx symmetrical.


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