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Outliers and Influential Points

Author: Katherine Williams
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Terms to Know
Influential Point

An observation that, if removed, significantly changes a statistical measure.

Outlier

In a scatter plot, an outlier is an observation that has an extreme x value, an extreme y value, both an extreme x and y, or is well away from the main trend of points.