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Can you remove outliers if they are less than 10% of the datapoints?
Adding to the general chorus of answers, all mostly in the same direction (your instructor is giving you bad advice).
I personally dislike the term "outlier", because of its negative ...
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Can you remove outliers if they are less than 10% of the datapoints?
Your instinct is correct and your professor's advice is, at best, something that you can follow until you learn more. However, what I would give as a "first rule" is "never remove ...
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Can you remove outliers if they are less than 10% of the datapoints?
As @NickCox wrote, there are many threads already discussing this.
Some remarks:
There is no agreed definition of what an outlier actually is. Some people talk about "outliers" as if they ...
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Can you remove outliers if they are less than 10% of the datapoints?
The problem here is how to define an outlier. Personally I would only remove an outlier if I thought there was a good reason to believe it was the result of, for example, a measurement error and wasn'...
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