When Looking at a Distribution of Data with a Possible

question 2

Multiple Choice

When looking at a distribution of data with a possible outlier, it is important to keep in mind the range of all scores because an extremely high or low outlier may skew the _____of the data set.

• A) parameters
• B) sum of squares
• C) mean
• D) mode

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