Six stage Identification and Assessment of Outliers and Influential Points in Regression Models
Keywords:
Regression diagnostics; outliers; influential observations; leverage; hat matrix; Cook's distance; masking and swamping; robust regression.Abstract
In regression analysis, a few unusual observations can change the fitted model. Suchobservations are of three kinds: outliers, which have a response far from the fitted line; highleverage points, which are far from the other observations in the predictor space; and influential points, which change the estimated coefficients
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