Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
The degree to which a statistic is affected by outliers or extreme values in a dataset; measures like the mean and standard deviation are more sensitive than quartiles and IQR.
AP course connection
Topic 1.7: 1.7 Summary Statistics for a Quantitative Variable