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...a data matrix with dimensions of 30x100. Before analysing the data there is, however, a need to remove outliers from the data. I read quite a lot about outlier removal already and I think the most common technique for that seems to be Principal Component Analysis (PCA). However, I think that these technqiue is quite subjective. When is an outlier an outlier? I uploaded an example PCA plot here: http://s14.postimage.org/oknyya1ld/pca.png Should we treat the green and red dots as outliers already or only the blue one which lies outside the 95% confidence interval. It seems very arbitrary how people r...

Can I say that RPART is a modified algo of CART and PARTY a modified of CHAID? Thanks. ---- Chua Siang Li Consultant - Operations Research Acceval Pte Ltd Tel: 6297 8740 Email: siang.li.chua at acceval-intl.com Website: www.acceval-intl.com This message and any attachments (the "message"...{{dropped:12}}