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Measures of Central Tendency & Outliers

Share with your students why the presence of an outlier affects which measure of central tendency to report. Feel free to modify the presentation to fit the needs of your students. Included at the end are additional online resources to further engage your students in their learning about the mean, median, and mode. The presentation is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License....

Keywords:: Mean, Mode, Measures of Central Tendency, Median, Statistics, Outlier

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Mathematics and Statistics / Statistics and Probability / Data Analysis

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 11, 2010
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 8, 2019
Author:: Robert Kelley
Submitter:: Robert Kelley
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: MS PowerPoint 2007 (PPTX)

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States