Question

Can someone tell me what an outlier is and how it affect your data? Thanks!

Answer 1

an outlier is something that doesnt follow the pattern of your data

for instance, if i was to list 10 different numbers:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 100000

notice (most) of the numbers are clumped fairly close together. except for 100000, it is way bigger than any of the other numbers

Answer 2

meaning it is an "outlier", or something that doesnt exactly fit in with your data

so the consequence of that is your data will be more inaccurate/less exact

Answer 3

Omg thank you!