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Themember4

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Under what circumstances would the median of a set of data be more representative than the mean of that data?

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What are the relative magnitudes of the mean, median, and mode for a unimodal distribution that is: A) symmetrical? Mean ___________________ _ median ___________________ _ mode. B) negatively skewed? Mean ___________________ _ median ___________________ _ mode. C) positively skewed? Mean ___________________ _ median ___________________ _ mode.
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Andromeda18

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

When the average of the group is larger than most of the values in the group (i.e., there is skewness in the data), if there are outliers in the data, or if the group of values is small.

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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