Author(s):
1. Iftikhar Hussain Adil:
Department of Economics
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad.
2. Ateeq ur Rehman Irshad:
Department of International Business &Marketing
Nust Business School
National University of Sciences and Technology
Islamabad
Abstract:
Tukey's boxplot is very popular tool for detection of outliers. It reveals the location, spread and skewness of the data. It works nicely for detection of outliers when the data are symmetric. When the data are skewed it covers boundary away from the whisker on the compressed side while declares erroneous outliers on the extended side of the distribution. Hubert and Vandervieren (2008) made adjustment in Tukey's technique to overcome this problem. However another problem arises that is the adjusted boxplot constructs the interval of critical values which even exceeds from the extremes of the data. In this situation adjusted boxplot is unable to detect outliers. This paper gives solution of this problem and proposed approach detects outliers properly. The validity of the technique has been checked by constructing fences around the true 95% values of different distributions. Simulation technique has been applied by drawing different sample size from chi square, beta and lognormal distributions. Fences constructed by the modified technique are close to the true 95% than adjusted boxplot which proves its superiority on the existing technique.
Page(s):
91-102
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Year: 2015
Keywords:
Skewness
,
Modified Boxplot
,
Adjusted boxplot
,
Medcouple
,
Boxplot
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