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Re: Rejecting outliers: was: Kurtosis.
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Jan 1, 02:31 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Jan 1, 02:31 -0800
Of course another way to deal with this is to take a lot more sights (dictaphone in shirt pocket) so that including such erroneous data points in the average will not result in a large error in the final average.
gl
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