checkforoutliers <- function(series)NULL

Cheers,
Bert

*Explanation: There is no such thing as a statistical outlier -- or,
rather,"outlier" is a fraudulent statistical concept, defined arbitrarily
and without scientific legitimacy. The typical unstated purpose of such
identification is to remove contaminating or irrelevant data, but such a
judgment can only be made by a subject matter expert with knowledge of the
context and, usually, the specific cause for the unusual data. Do not be
misled by the large body of statistical literature on this topic into
believing that statistical analysis alone can provide objective criteria to
do this. That is a path to scientific purgatory.

For the record:
1. I am a statistician
2. Lots of highly knowledgeable, smart statisticians will condemn what I
have just said as stupid ranting.

The perils of a mailing list.

-- Bert

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Sajeeka Nanayakkara <nsajeeka@yahoo.com>wrote:

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