R help - Aug 2003 - R-help: beginner question - Thank you! OUTLIERS

Hi,

Thank you so much for all your rapid answers. I am impressed.

What i didn't know was that i have to assign my data to an object 
to work further on. It was not clear from the help (at least for me) 
that 'data()' itself is calling data already in R packages. All of you 
make that clear.

Now, if you can suggest any good package to use for identifying 
outliers it will be great ;-)) 

Hopefully from now one, since i understood how i am using the 
examples, what 'data()' means and how i am using my own data, i 
will put less trivial questions.

thank you so much indeed,

Monica


Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy
University of Manchester
School of Geography
Mansfield Cooper Building 
Oxford Road, Manchester
M13 9PL, UK. 
email: monica.palaseanu-lovejoy at stud.man.ac.uk

Have you considered normal probability plots (qqnorm) to identify 
outliers?  These will identify much more, of course, including the need 
for transformations, mixtures of distributions, etc.

hope this helps.  spencer graves

Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you so much for all your rapid answers. I am impressed.
> 
> What i didn't know was that i have to assign my data to an object 
> to work further on. It was not clear from the help (at least for me) 
> that 'data()' itself is calling data already in R packages. All of
you
> make that clear.
> 
> Now, if you can suggest any good package to use for identifying 
> outliers it will be great ;-)) 
> 
> Hopefully from now one, since i understood how i am using the 
> examples, what 'data()' means and how i am using my own data, i 
> will put less trivial questions.
> 
> thank you so much indeed,
> 
> Monica
> 
> 
> Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy
> University of Manchester
> School of Geography
> Mansfield Cooper Building 
> Oxford Road, Manchester
> M13 9PL, UK. 
> email: monica.palaseanu-lovejoy at stud.man.ac.uk
> 
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