AP Statistics › How to find outliers
Use the following five number summary to determine if there are any outliers in the data set:
Minimum:
Q1:
Median:
Q3:
Maximum:
A certain distribution has a 1st quartile of 8 and a 3rd quartile of 16. Which of the following data points would be considered an outlier?
You are given the following information regarding a particular data set:
Q1:
Q3:
Assume that the numbers and
are in the data set. How many of these numbers are outliers?
Which values in the above data set are outliers?
For a data set, the first quartile is , the third quartile is
and the median is
.
Based on this information, a new observation can be considered an outlier if it is greater than what?
Use the following five number summary to answer the question below:
Min:
Q1:
Med:
Q3:
Max:
Which of the following is true regarding outliers?