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# Dealing with outliers

In this chapter, we describe and illustrate several approaches to deal with outliers.
By **outliers** in data, we mean data points that significantly differ from the pattern of other observations in a set of data. They may arise from unaccounted for or underestimated errors, or just be anomalous occurrences.