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Re: Rejecting outliers: was: Kurtosis.
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2011 Jan 1, 10:53 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2011 Jan 1, 10:53 +1100
George Huxtable wrote:
Yes. These are good examples of the kind of blunders that use of slope is very useful for detection and correction.
There will inevitably be additional blunders of such a nature that it's
difficult or impossible to apply any sort of distribution to them. A
noted-down digit, misread or badly written in dim light. The mistake, that
almost every navigator makes at least once, of exactly reading a micrometer
drum, but reading the scale-of-degrees as one too many, especially when
the minutes approach 60.
Yes. These are good examples of the kind of blunders that use of slope is very useful for detection and correction.
