20. Video: Shape and Outliers

Outliers

We learned that outliers are points that fall very far from the rest of our data points. This influences measures like the mean and standard deviation much more than measures associated with the five number summary.

Identifying Outliers

There are a number of different techniques for identifying outliers. A full paper on this topic is provided here. In general, I usually just look at a picture and see if something looks suspicious!