Answer to Question #99725 in Statistics and Probability for Hari Singh

Question

Free Sulphur dioxide and total Sulphur dioxide have mean, median and modes that differ substantially from each other. What can you infer from this

Answer 1

In a symmetric distribution, the mean, median and mode find the center accurately. They are approximately equal.

In a skewed distribution, the outliers in the tail pull the mean away from the center.

So, the distributions for the free Sulfur dioxide and the total Sulfur dioxide are substantially skewed (left or right).