{"id":2484,"date":"2021-11-08T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2484"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:46:10","password":"","slug":"outlier","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/outlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A value for a continuous variable that is unusual by virtue of lying well away from the majority of the values observed.  Can be a flag that there has been a data entry error but can be real.  Tend to have a lot of influence in some statistical summaries of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>See histogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Histogram!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not formally discussed in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Created 8\/11\/21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A value for a continuous variable that is unusual by virtue of lying well away from the majority of the values observed. Can be a flag that there has been a data entry error but can be real. Tend to have a lot of influence in some statistical summaries of data. Details See histogram. Try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/outlier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outlier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-2484","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":66,"total_views":"1138","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2484\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}