Which of the following is true of outliers Question 6 option

Which of the following is true of outliers? Question 6 options: a) They must be removed from the data set before calculating any statistics. b) The researcher can choose to remove them before conducting statistical analyses, but their removal should have a reasonable justification. c) They should be included when calculating descriptive statistics but excluded when calculating inferential statistics. d) They must be included in all statistical analyses.

Solution

the correct answers for this will be option B because sometimes outliers provide reasonable data and interesting one also that we cannot remove them but also sometimes it represent a wrong data so the researcher can choose what to do and give the justified reason for choosing hence option B is correct