Is the mean affected by the existence of an outlier

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22 July, 01:34

Is the mean affected by the existence of an outlier

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Kamari Schroeder · Answer 1

The mode and median didn't change very much. They also stayed around where most of the data is. So it seems that outliers have the biggest effect on the mean, and not so much on the median or mode. Hint: calculate the median and mode when you have outliers.