How does the presence of outliers affect the range and interquartile range?
- Decreases both
- Increases IQR, but doesn't affect range
- Increases both
- Increases range, but doesn't affect IQR
Outliers significantly affect the "Range" as it measures the distance between the largest and smallest values. However, the Interquartile Range (IQR), being a measure of the middle 50% of the data, is not affected by outliers.
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