What is the effect of 'binning' on the overall variance of the dataset?
- It can either increase or decrease the variance
- It decreases the variance
- It does not affect the variance
- It increases the variance
Binning reduces the variance of a dataset by replacing outlier values with summary statistics like the bin mean or median, hence, reducing the spread of data.
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