Submitted:
09 July 2020
Posted:
11 July 2020
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Abstract
A critical analysis of the classical definition of outsiders is given. Some examples show that this notion is not universal and has at least two drawbacks. Particularly, the set of outsiders may have the probability arbitrary close to one half. On the other hand, the deleting of the set of outsiders may dramatically change the value of the median.
Keywords:
outsiders
; outliers
; instability of the median
; gamma-distribution
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