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Outliers are observations that are unusually large or unusually small. There is no universally agreed definition but values smaller than Q1 - 1.5*IQR or larger than Q3 + 1.5IQR are normally considered outliers. Q1 and Q3 are the lower and upper quartiles and Q3-Q1 is the inter quartile range, IQR.

Outliers distort the mean but cannot affect the median. If it distorts the median, then most of the data are rubbish and the data set should be examined thoroughly.

Outliers will distort measures of dispersion, and higher moments, such as the variance, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis etc but again, will not affect the IQR except in very extreme conditions.

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Does outliers affects data?

No. Outliers are part of the data and do not affect them. They will, however, affect statistics based on the data and inferences based on the data.


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