Some data sets include values so high or so low that they seem to stand apart from
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Lower limit: Q1 1.5 Ã (IQR)
Upper limit: Q3 1.5 Ã (IQR)
where IQR is the interquartile range, are suspected outliers. In the computer software package Minitab, values beyond these limits are plotted with asterisks (*).
Students from a statistics class were asked to record their heights in inches.
The heights (as recorded) were
(a) Make a box-and-whisker plot of the data.
(b) Find the interquartile range (IQR).
(c) Multiply the IQR by 1.5 and find the lower and upper limits.
(d) Are there any data values below the lower limit? above the upper limit? List any suspected outliers. What might be some explanations for the outliers?
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Understanding Basic Statistics
ISBN: 9781111827021
6th Edition
Authors: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
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