Measures of Central Tendency Outlier

By how much will the mean vary if the outlier is included?

88, 78, 90, 82, 46, 95, 77

• 5.6

• 6.1

• 85

• 79.4

Gary has taken an aptitude test 8 times and his scores are 96, 98, 98, 105, 36, 87, 95, and 93. Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for his scores?

• Median

• Mode

• Mean

• Range

Find the mode of the data set, Identify the outlier, and find the mode excluding outliers:

100, 100, 100, 20, 120, 90.

• 110, 120, 100

• 100,100, 100

• 20, 100, 20

• 100, 20, 100

By how much will the mean vary if the outlier is included?

79, 69, 81, 73, 38, 86, 68

• 70.6

• 5.9

• 76

• 5.4

If there is an outlier in your data then your best measure of central tendency is the __________.

• mean

• median

• mode

Which measure of central tendency is MOST EASILY affected by outliers?

• mean

• median

• mode

• IQR

What measure of central tendency would I NOT use if I had an outlier

• Median

• Mode

• Mean

When analyzing numerical data, the best measure of center with an outlier is:

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

What measure of center is best to use when we have outliers?

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

Which measure of central tendency is most affected by outliers in a dataset?

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range