Descriptive Statisticshard
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The range rule of thumb estimates standard deviation as SDRange4SD \approx \frac{\text{Range}}{4} for approximately normal distributions (assuming data spans from roughly xˉ2σ\bar{x} - 2\sigma to xˉ+2σ\bar{x} + 2\sigma). For a dataset with range 120, this rule estimates SD30SD \approx 30. However, for which of the following data characteristics would this estimate be LEAST reliable?