A simple more general boxplot method for identifying outliers

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 165-174

  Schwertman, Neil C ^a   Owens, Margaret Ann ^a   Adnan, Robiah ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric; Fences; Hinge

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOXPLOT METHOD; OUTLIERS; QUARTILES;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 4544224452     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2003.10.012     Document Type: Article

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