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Median + MAD for skewed data

I am trying to figure out what happens if you apply Hampel's outlier detection technique based on the median and the MAD to data that is skewed. Apparently, the advantage of Hampel's method over ...
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Using MAD as a way of defining a threshold for significance testing

If I have a set of terms each term having a particular frequency associated with it (the number of the times the term has appeared in fixed corpus of papers), then is the following method of ...
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Determine whether a number “fits” with a group of numbers

I need to determine if a single number "fits" with a group of numbers. All the numbers will be percentages, so we'll use decimals. For example: The group is: ...