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Alainaaa8

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on: Jul 24, 2018
What is a reasonable action if an outlier is the value for the only young subject in a sample where all of the other values were for older subjects?

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What is a reasonable action if an outlier was a mistake made in measuring the object?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The value should be discarded and the results summarized and reported for the older subjects only.

Answer to Question 2

The value should be corrected if possible or discarded if not possible to correct it.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Gracias!

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