Talk:Outlier
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Adopted orphan redirects for Google: inner fence, outer fence, mild outlier, Extreme outlier
In sans-serif font, 1.5 IQR looks like a division. Patrick 11:15 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
I did it that way so I wouldn't have to use * or x or × for multiplication. What would you prefer? dcljr 13:53 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
When using multi-letter variables a multiplication sign avoids ambiguity, and in this case coincidentally there was even a little more ambiguity.
Any of the three is fine with me, × is neatest, but more cumbersome to write. - Patrick 14:26 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)
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more info but clearer answers i don't get a thing and my exam is tommorrow!!!!
[edit] Outliers as 2 s.d.s away from men
Is there not a second defintion of outliers, as lying more than two standard deviations away from the mean? Or am I mixing other things up? I am a physicist, and it is a long time since I did "real" statistics... Batmanand | Talk 09:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
This is a poor definition of outliers as it changes upon recursion, i.e. the standard deviation is highly dependent on the outliers. Check boxplot for a simple but easy to understand definition that is not distribution dependent.
