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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

XKCD

Every teacher needs a collection of relevant comics, and this one will certainly be showing up in my statistics class in a few weeks, when we talk about boxplots and outliers:
... okay, but because you said that, we're breaking up.
Posted by Jessica at 8:15 AM
Labels: comic, outlier, statistics

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