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Transforming outliers

Transforming outliers

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Transforming outliers

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- [Instructor] Every procedure makes assumptions about the data that is dealing with in order to, behave as properly. One of the biggest problems you can have, in the vast majority procedures, is outliers. Extreme values that tend to exert undue influence on the results of your analysis. And so it's very important to be aware of the existence of outliers. And it's important to know what some of your options are, for dealing with them, so you can get results that mean, what you think they mean. To do this, I'm going to load a few packages, including the datasets package, which has a small data set that's called Islands. Let's get a little bit of information on that. Do question mark islands? And it's the area of the world's major land masses. It's the area in thousands of square miles, for any landmass that exceeds 10,000 square miles. Now it's a named vector and it has 48 observations in it. Let's take a look at the actual…

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