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Section 4.1-4.3
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(b) Using your procedure from part (a), determine if there are outliers in these data.
(a) Under what circumstances should one consider using a trimmed mean as a description
of the center of a distribution?
(b) Does the fire damage data exhibit the characteristic(s) that suggest a trimmed mean is
the appropriate statistic to calculate? Explain.