What is a reasonable action if an outlier is a legitimate data ...

[BRWH]

What is a reasonable action if an outlier is a legitimate data value and represents natural variability for the group and variable measured?

Question 2

Determine whether the following statement is true or false and explain your answer : Since outliers cause complications in statistical analyses, they should be discarded before computing summaries such as the mean and the standard deviation.
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

[Kimmy]

Answer to Question 1

The value should not be discarded; in fact, it may be one of the more interesting values in the data set.

Answer to Question 2

False. Although outliers do affect summaries such as the mean and standard deviation, they should never be discarded without justification.

[BRWH]

TYSM

[ktidd]

Excellent