Re: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-02-18 Thread Guy Green
I had a similar problem. In my case, I had a large table of data and wanted to find and exclude a single huge value in one column (i.e. remove the entire row). There were thousands of rows of data, and this single value was more than 3x the next value, and at least 30x the typical value. I want

Re: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-01-19 Thread Eik Vettorazzi
fortune("outlier") vikrant schrieb: Suppose I am reading data from a file and the data contains some outliers. I want to know if it is possible in R to automatically detect outliers in a dataset and remove them -- Eik Vettorazzi Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie Univers

Re: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-01-19 Thread milton ruser
Hi V.S., Did you search first on r-repositories about this issue prior to ask? May be not. RSiteSearch("outliers") bests milton On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:08 AM, vikrant wrote: > > Suppose I am reading data from a file and the data contains some outliers. > I > want to know if it is possible

Re: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-01-18 Thread GlenB
What makes an outlier an outlier depends on the model. A highly discrepant observation under one model is entirely typical under another. Even given a model, criteria for what consititutes an outlier vary by application area and user. Even given all of that, exclusion is only one of many possib

Re: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Nordlund
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of vikrant > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:09 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R? > > > Suppose I

[R] How to detect and exclude outliers in R?

2010-01-18 Thread vikrant
Suppose I am reading data from a file and the data contains some outliers. I want to know if it is possible in R to automatically detect outliers in a dataset and remove them -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/How-to-detect-and-exclude-outliers-in-R-tp1017285p1017285.html Sent