Question

The best definition of outliers is that they are:

Group of answer choices

Unusual scores that should be examined carefully

Scores that do not belong with the rest of the data and should be deleted

Values that are not representative of the population under study

Values that interfere with effective data analysis

Answer 1

Ans : The best definition of outliers is that they are:  Values that are not representative of the population under study

Because

we will define three distinct types of outliers : representative outliers which are true values that are not considered entirely unique in the population ; non-representative outliers, which are considered to be unique in the population; and gross measurement errors which are outlying observations that are not true values.