Using R. Write a function that, given any set of data, would pinpoint the value of the "outlier," wherean outlier is defined as the point that is farthest from the median of the data as measured byabsolute deviation. Test your function on the following sample 0.10, 0.50, 0.70, 0.80, 1.20,1.35, 5.00, 10.00.

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Using R.

Write a function that, given any set of data, would pinpoint the value of the "outlier," where
an outlier is defined as the point that is farthest from the median of the data as measured by
absolute deviation. Test your function on the following sample 0.10, 0.50, 0.70, 0.80, 1.20,
1.35, 5.00, 10.00.

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An outlier is a piece of data that is an abnormal distance from other points. In other words, it’s data that lies outside the other values in the set. If you had Pinocchio in a class of children, the length of his nose compared to the other children would be an outlier.

In this set of random numbers, 0.10 and 10.00 are outliers:

0.10, 0.50, 0.70, 0.80, 1.20, 1.35, 5.00, 10.00.

“o.10” is an extremely low value and

“10.oo” is an extremely high value.