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The Study of Outliers: Purpose and Model

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  • Vic Barnett

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Outliers may influence the analysis of a set of data in various different ways. Some practical examples are used to motivate a categorization of the different aims in handling outliers and of the different models which might be employed to reflect the presence of outliers.

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  • Vic Barnett, 1978. "The Study of Outliers: Purpose and Model," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 27(3), pages 242-250, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssc:v:27:y:1978:i:3:p:242-250
    DOI: 10.2307/2347159
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    3. Schwertman, Neil C. & de Silva, Rapti, 2007. "Identifying outliers with sequential fences," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 51(8), pages 3800-3810, May.
    4. Rifo, L.R. & Santos, J.D., 2012. "A note on conflict of information and subexponential densities," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(4), pages 840-842.
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    6. Carling, Kenneth, 1998. "Resistant outlier rules and the non-Gaussian case," Working Paper Series 2001:7, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy.
    7. Carling, Kenneth, 2000. "Resistant outlier rules and the non-Gaussian case," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 249-258, May.

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