Practice question
Question
The most appropriate measure of dispersion when the data are contaminated by outliners is:
Explanation
Quartile deviation based on Q1 and Q3 is resistant to outliers because interquartile range excludes extreme 25% tails. Range, standard deviation and mean deviation use all values, so outliers distort them heavily.
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