Extreme Values Might Prove to Be Problematic for Parametric Analyses,but

question 98

Multiple Choice

Extreme values might prove to be problematic for parametric analyses,but they pose no particular problem for many nonparametric analyses.Because of this property,nonparametric tests are often said to be:

• A)robust
• B)corrected
• C)outlier sensitive
• D)outlier resistant

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of values, showing how much variation there is from the average (mean).

Range

The difference between the largest and smallest values in a set of data.

Variance

A measure of variability that describes the spread of a data set or distribution.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a dataset, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.