The phrase
"statistical outliers" refers to data points that are significantly different from the rest of the data. These points are atypically distant from the average or majority of the values in a dataset. They are considered unusual or rare occurrences that might have an impact on statistical analysis or conclusions drawn from the data.
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Distorted self - perceptions: Divergent self - reports as
statistical outliers in the multimethod assessment of children's social — emotional adjustment
@AndrewLeach you're
a statistical outlier.
We expect that extreme values of slopes estimated for different factors or strategies are
statistical outliers.
A counterintuitive feature of all this: if there's no trend, that makes the record still more of
a statistical outlier, yet it must be due to natural variability since there's nothing else left to which to attribute it.
These procedures are not merely correcting erroneous data entries or removing nonrepresentative data (ie,
statistical outliers).
While our time series analyses did not detect
any statistical outliers in these years, we were concerned we had tested our hypothesis initially on potentially inaccurate data.
With the exception of 2015 (
a statistical outlier in which auto accidents went up, due in large part to texting and driving), NTSB charts a sharp decline in overall auto accidents in the U.S. over the last decade.
There was a small advantage to cognitive therapy until one of the original 10 studies was excluded as
a statistical outlier.
The aggregate effect size of cognitive therapy was 0.49 over non bona fide therapies (95 % CI 0.28 to 0.69); 0.16 over bona fide therapies (95 % CI -0.01 to 0.32), and 0.03 over bona fide therapies once
a statistical outlier was removed (95 % CI -0.15 to 0.2).