AP Statistics Effect Of Skewness and Outliers on Measures of Center

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If a distribution of quantitative data is roughly symmetric and has no outliers the mean and median will be

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If a distribution of quantitative data is roughly symmetric and has no outliers the mean and median will be

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If the distribution is strongly skewed, the ---- will be pulled in the direction of the skewness but the ---- won’t.

mean, median

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For a right-skewed distribution, we expect the ---- to be greater than the ----.

mean, median

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For a left-skewed distribution, we expect the ---- to be less than the ----.

mean, median

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The ---- is resistant to outliers but the ----- isn’t

median, mean

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