Posts tagged shifting
Transforming random variables by shifting and scaling the data set

Shifting the data set by a constant k means adding k to every value in the data set, or subtracting k from every value in the data set. On the other hand, scaling the data set by a constant k means multiplying or dividing every value in the data set by k.

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How changes to the data change the mean, median, mode, range, and IQR

In this lesson, we want to see what happens to our measures of central tendency and spread when we make changes to our data set. Specifically the changes made either by changing all the values in the set at once, or by adding a single data point to, or removing a single data point from, the data set.

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