Outlier
What Outlier means in Mathematics A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A value that lies far from the rest of the data, which may be a genuine extreme value or an error.
A value that lies an unusual distance from the bulk of the data.
Topics that use Outlier
- L: Data presentation and interpretation (AQA A-Level)
- Data presentation and interpretation (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Cleaning data
- Correlation
- Frequency density
- Histogram
- Measures of central tendency
- Measures of variation
- standard deviation
- Summary statistics
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