Questions
1. What does it mean to say that a summary statistic is resistant?
2. Which summary statistics considered in this lab appeared
to be resistant? Nonresistant? (Back up your answer with the values of
summary statistics computed using the applet.)
3. What explanations can you give for the resistance or nonresistance of these summary statistics?
4. After removing outliers from a data set, it is possible for new outliers to appear. Why can this occur?