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Re: How to identify outliers

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From Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net>
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Subject Re: How to identify outliers
Date Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:35:06 +0100
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On 2017-11-28 16:28, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 9:40:41 AM UTC-5, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I got a statistical problem, and due to a youth math trauma, I'd like a
>> bit of help to solve it.
>>
>> I have a data series. Integer values, but that should be beside the
>> point. I want to identify and eliminate "outliers" from this series.
>> "Outliers" being values that are "too big" or "too small", in short,
>> that are not congruent with the rest of the series. I am well aware that
>> saying "outlier" begs the question, hence the quotes, but I can
>> fine-tune the degree of outlying for my purposes later on. For the time
>> being, I wonder if someone could outline some basic approaches I could
>> take in the matter.
> 
> Were you looking for help figuring out what the outliers should be, or for Java code to remove values from a list which exceed a minimum and maximum?

:-)

No, I was looking for the math. Code is (comparatively) easy.

-- 
DF.

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How to identify outliers Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2017-11-28 15:40 +0100
  Re: How to identify outliers Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-11-28 10:13 -0500
    Re: How to identify outliers Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2017-11-28 17:33 +0100
  Re: How to identify outliers Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 07:28 -0800
    Re: How to identify outliers Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2017-11-28 17:35 +0100
  Re: How to identify outliers Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2017-11-30 18:38 +0100

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