Standard deviation can be highly influenced by outliers. True False
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Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out a set of data is from its mean. It tells us how much the data deviates from the average. Now, let's consider outliers. Outliers are data points that are significantly different from the rest of the data. They can Show more…
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