Assignment Problems

Section 2.3

1. Explain. What can be the effect on conclusions drawn from a data data set that contains outliers?

2. True or false? The median can be found if a data set contains only nominal level data.

3. State whether the shape of the distribution represented by the histogram in Figure 1 is symmetric, uniform, skewed left, skewed right, or none of these.

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