Exercise

Exercise 8. Using EDA to explore changes

We have seen how the average can be affected by outliers. But how large can this effect get? This of course depends on the size of the outlier and the size of the dataset.

To see how outliers can affect the average of a dataset, let's write a simple function that takes the size of the outlier as input and returns the average.

Instructions

100 XP

Write a function called error_avg that takes a value k and returns the average of the vector x after the first entry changed to k. Show the results for k=10000 and k=-10000.

Take Hint (-30 XP)