Question 8 / 8:  What measure would be the most appropriate to measure the central tendency of a distribution that has a lot of outliers?
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The median would be the ideal measure of central tendency, since it is robust to outliers.
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Attribution:  Janet, E.A. Forrester, Kwan Ho Kenneth Chui, Steven Cohen, Michael D. Kneeland, Alice Tang, David Tybor. Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2010. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/65/ (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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