Handling Outliers

How to handle outliers

There are many methods of handling outliers in a dataset. Here are a few of them:

• Ignoring outliers: We can investigate outlier records to determine whether they are genuine. If they are, we can leave them for further data analysis.

• Removing outliers: We can remove the records that are considered outliers from a dataset. We perform this operation when removing them doesn't significantly impact further data analysis.

• Imputing outliers: We can replace outlier values with a particular value, such as the mean or median of the dataset. Generally, we perform this operation when the goal is to maintain the size and representativeness of the dataset.

• Applying log ...