How can outliers influence the mean of a dataset?
- Can either increase or decrease the mean
- Decrease the mean
- Does not affect the mean
- Increase the mean
Outliers can have a big impact on the mean. Depending on whether the outlier is much higher or lower than the other values, it can significantly increase or decrease the mean, thereby skewing the data.
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