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Outlier Handling

Part of the Data Analyst Roadmap

In short

Applying Phase 4's outlier detection with a clear action plan — investigate, cap, remove, or keep and flag — and always documenting the decision, since outlier handling silently changes your conclusions.

How to learn this

  1. 1Take a dataset with known outliers and decide + justify a handling strategy for each.
  2. 2Practice capping (winsorizing) values instead of just deleting them, as an alternative.
  3. 3Re-run a summary statistic before and after outlier handling to see the impact.

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