Table of Contents

Partial table of contents.

BASIC PRINCIPLES.

Why Do Outlying Observations Arise and What Should One Do AboutThem?

The Accommodation Approach: Robust Estimation and Testing.

UNIVARIATE DATA.

Accommodation Procedures for Univariate Samples.

Specific Discordancy Tests for Outliers in UnivariateSamples.

MULTIVARIATE AND STRUCTURED DATA.

Outliers in Multivariate Data.

The Outlier Problem for Structured Data: Regression, the LinearModel and Designed Experiments.

SPECIAL TOPICS.

Bayesian Approaches to Outliers.

Outliers in Time Series: An Important Area of Outlier Study.

Outliers in Directional Data.

Appendix.

References and Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

Vic Barnett is the author of Outliers in Statistical Data, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley. Toby Lewis is the author of Outliers in Statistical Data, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

Reviews

"It is an extremely well written and thought provoking classical book about outliers." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, January 2006)