Remember that a resistant statistic is a numerical summary


Question: Remember that a resistant statistic is a numerical summary whose value is not unduly influenced by an outlier of any magnitude. Is the standard deviation a resistant statistic? Justify your answer by giving an example of a small dataset, and then adding a very large outlier and noting how the standard deviation is affected.

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Basic Statistics: Remember that a resistant statistic is a numerical summary
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