In article <8gal3d$a0e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Manuel Castejon Limas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear people,
>Im looking for outlier detection methods in non normal multivariate
>distributions.
>Any help would be appreciated.
The idea of an outlier depends heavily on the distribution;
there is no such thing as an absolute outlier.
The purpose of an detecting an outlier is that it is an
incorrect or spurious observation, and including it would
therefore be likely to give incorrect results.
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