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What is the difference between "resistant to outliers" and "sensitive to outliers"? I can't seem to find these definitions anywhere. Thanks.

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Outliers are, supposedly, numbers far from the average value of a set.

The median of a set of numbers is less sensitive to outliers than the mean.

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