Question

What are at least three reasonable ways to deal with the following outliers based on the discussion in chapter 12? https://opentext.wsu.edu/carriecuttler/chapter/12-4-conducting-your-analyses/

(a) A participant estimating ordinary people’s heights estimates one woman’s height to be “84 inches” tall.

This is a discussion question about descriptive stats. Write three reasonable ways to deal with “A participant estimating ordinary people’s heights estimates one woman’s height to be “84 inches” tall”.

Answer 1

The three reasonable ways to deal with this outlier:

1. Completely remove the record from the dataset.

2. Cap the outliers at a specific level.

3. Transform the data, such as into percentiles.