In a clinical trial, the average recovery time for a new drug is drastically increased due to a patient who took an unusually long time to recover. How would this patient's data point be classified in this context?
- A normal data point
- An error
- An outlier
- nan
This patient's data point would be classified as an outlier as it deviates significantly from the other data points.
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