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Re: st: Detecting Outliers
On 2 Beal 2006, at 14:27, Raphael Fraser wrote:
my objective is simple to locate potential outliers then cross check
with patient records to ensure that the information is legitimate.
error free.
You will have to look at multivariate outliers, then. A height of
160cm is believable as is a weight of 120 Kg, but in combination they
suggest error (but do not prove it). You need to think of groups of
measures which, together, define outliers.
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