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Old 03-04-2011, 07:57 AM   #28239
Iridal
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Originally Posted by beppe View Post
the famous outlier. I know a couple of ways to avoid its nefarious effects (mathematics, puach!). Of course to find out how it got there, that *is* interesting.
Our solution for outliers is simple: just ignore them. Get rid of them. Throw them out of your dataset. Works every time

Nah, just kidding. We have a couple of statisticians in our team who deal with that sort of thing. I'm a social scientist, math isn't my thing

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Any thing not to do what I should be doing
Same here ... I just have an hour between meetings. I should be typing out the notes I took at the previous meeting because otherwise I'll have to do it tuesday and then I won't remember anything. I'm too tired.
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