good method of removing outliers?
On 30/12/11 17:03, Michael wrote:
Happy holidays all! I know it's very subjective to determine whether some data is outlier or not... But are there reasonally good and realistic methods of identifying outliers in R? Thanks a lot!
Ignoring the moral questions for a moment (totaly depends on your defintion of an outlier, your dataset, it's distribution etc etc), for the technical implementation, try the outliers package (http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/web/packages/outliers/index.html), which implements the Grubbs and Cox tests. Also, see this stackoverflow answer of mine that shows an implementation of the Llund test for outliers within a regression ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/1444548/74658 ). Regards, Paul.