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Roughly speaking, the standard deviation indicates how far, on average, the observations are from the mean. Do you think that for the data set below the standard deviation will give a good indication of the typical deviation from the mean?

2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 100

What drawback of the standard deviation is illustrated by this example?


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Reply 2 on: Apr 7, 2020
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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