Question

Use the standard deviation to identify any outliers in the given data set.

{1, 62, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1}

thank you if you can help

Answer 1

clearly, 62 is the outlier

The mean is 6.91
The std is σ=16.63
so 62 is 3.3σ above the mean

so -- what makes an outlier?