2.32 Resistance to an outlier Consider the following three sets of observations: Set 1: 8, 9, 10,...

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2.32 Resistance to an outlier Consider the following three sets of observations:

Set 1: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Set 2: 8, 9, 10, 11, 100 Set 3: 8, 9, 10, 11, 1000

a. Find the median for each data set.

b. Find the mean for each data set.

c. What do these data sets illustrate about the resistance of the median and mean?

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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data

ISBN: 9781292164878

4th Global Edition

Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg

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