On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Manuj Sharma wrote:
I need to detect outliers in a large data set which is highly right-
skewed. I plan to use medcouple-based outlier detection. Is there
any support for medcouple-based outlier detection in R?
library(sos) # a package that links to Baron's r-search
???medcouple
7 hits in 2 different packages (robustbase and LambertW)
So I would guess that the answer is "yes".
Are there any other routines in R to perform outlier detection in
highly right-skewed data?
Yes. Suggest you look over the Robust Statistics Task View.
Manuj Sharma
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