What action should be taken with an outlier

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Outliers

a. In your own words, describe to someone who knows only a little statistics how to recognize when an observation is an outlier. What action(s) should be taken with an outlier?

b. Which measure of the center (mean or median) is more resistant to outliers, and what does "resistant to outliers" mean?

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