Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Cryer
and with bivariate data, neither component need be high or low! Jon Cryer At 12:14 PM 2/25/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Of course it can be. An outlier is any value that is not usual for your data >set. >"Voltolini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >002f01c1be21$65913d60$0fe9e3c8@oemcomputer">new

Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Glen Barnett
Voltolini wrote: > > Hi, > > My doubt isan outlier can be a LOW data value in the sample (and not > just the highest) ? > > Several text boks dont make this clear !!! What makes an outlier "an outlier" is your model. If your model accounts for all the observations, you can't really call an

Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Dennis Roberts
of course, if one has control over the data, checking the coding and making sure it is correct is a good thing to do if you do not have control over that, then there may be very little you can do with it and in fact, you may be totally UNaware of an outlier problem i see as a potentially MUCH

What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Art Kendall
--6F47CB3D3B10A10A3E9B064C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An "outlier" is any value for a variable that is suspect given the measurement system, "common sense", other values for the variable in the data set, or the values a case has on ot

Re: What is an outlier ? cont'd

2002-02-25 Thread Art Kendall
--A59A95727DA65C2AB2F9EBF5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That being said, occasions can arise where there are outliers other than from measurement or data entry error. Different disciplines have different approaches. What discipline are yo

Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread IPEK
Of course it can be. An outlier is any value that is not usual for your data set. "Voltolini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 002f01c1be21$65913d60$0fe9e3c8@oemcomputer">news:002f01c1be21$65913d60$0fe9e3c8@oemcomputer... > Hi, > > > My doubt isan outlier can be a LOW data value in the sam

What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Voltolini
Hi, My doubt isan outlier can be a LOW data value in the sample (and not just the highest) ? Several text boks dont make this clear !!! Thanks V. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the pr