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  • 10-05-2018
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when do you use the median instead of the mean to describe the measure of the center of a data set

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  • 10-05-2018
You use a median instead of a mean when there is an outlier in the data set. Because the median will remain a more central number whereas the mean will be stretched further form the middle towards the outlier.
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