Chapter 2: Dealing with Univariate Outliers

Abstract

The notion of univariate outliers was introduced in Chapter 1, along with some specific examples and some illustrations of their consequences; the purpose of this chapter is to provide a more detailed treatment of these topics. The chapter begins, in Sec. 2.1, with a slightly more detailed example that further illustrates the impact of outliers on historically popular data characterizations. Following that example, this chapter focuses on the following three primary topics: